The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-27
AMERICAN MADE TEETH.
Dentists Of the World Get Them
From philadelphia Factories.

Z Just as America has taken the COM
mercIal lead in many other articles
of manufacture that no one dreamed
Uncle Sam would ever control, so
gradually the superiority of American
made teeth has forced all nations to
come to this country for their dental
supplies, until today 1t is no exagger-
alton to say that at this moment mill
lions of jaws in Europe and Asia and
Africa are masticating with the aid OF
the product OF the United States tooth
factories, says the New York Tribune.
TO Philadelphia belongs the honor OF
having the largest plant for the manu-
facture of artificial teeth in the world.
These teeth have been sent to the ut
termost ends of the earth.
In other days every dentist made his
teeth in a little laboratory attached to
his Office. Now they are made in gi-
gantic factories where hundreds OF
hands are employed. The labor is or
the most skilled order, and the fine
hand of woman is employed with sat
isfaction in shaping and finishing the
cleaning dental supplies. In one OF
the big factories there is a capacious
freproof room in which are kept the
moulds of hundreds of different kinds
Of teeth. Should there be a call for
teeth of particular pattern supplied
by the factory years ago, the mould
could be got in Few minutes and
the order filled with much greater
celerity than IL new style were re-
quired
When new teeth are ordered-and
there are fashions in teeth, 1t SEEMS
1t Is necessary to make mould first.
workers in the preparation OF these
moulds, which must be shaped and
fooled with the utmost precision IN
order that the teeth may conform to
the shape and style ordered. When
the mould is made 1t is filed with
the soft composition and the cover
put on to press 1t into the shape OF
the mould. The nature of this COM
position, which resembles in appear
ance plaster OF paris, is factory Sc
Cret When the composition Is in the
mould IL is placed in an oven to be
hardened. From the oven II travels TO
another operator, who trims off the
rough edges and shapes 1t into the
finished tooth. Then 1t goes to the
furnace to receive the final baking
at a tremendous heat. After that the
girls get in their fine work, polishing
and finishing and examining for de-
fects, for the smallest flaw In the tooth
will cause discomfort when In the
mouth Some of the girls, skilled in
the work, sit all day long critically
examining the cards Of shining teeth
and discarding those that are imper-
feet and need further touching up.
There are faddists in teeth as in
everything else. Sometimes a tooth
less person will order a set OF teeth
Of the kind she has seen some one else
flashing on an admiring audience. II
these are artificial and the covetous
one will pay the price, the dentist
will make point of basking in the
cleaning smile of the posscssor or the
fine set of teeth, and will then order
set expressly made to match II. The
task of supplying such an order is
often easy, as long years of experi-
ence in moulding teeth has secured
models of almost every kind of gen.
uine teeth, but occasionally there are
ordered what is known as freak
ieeth"--teeth which have peculiar
color and shape so different from
any teeth before manufactured tina,
it takes days of experiment with
chemicals and moulds to produce any
thing that approaches the original.
On the other hand. men frequently
want teeth to match their own tobacco
stained ones. Then the coloring pro-
cess has to be of the expert order SO
that no one may detest the presence
Of false tcoth II the dental display
of the nicotine user. A large bu3i-
ness is done in these tinted teeth and
the art of coloring to match sample
is as important In its way as the maxi
ing of the teeth to match the shape
of the genuine ones.