Denture
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for Jonathan Dodge, “Setting Artificial Teeth,” U.S. Patent 2985 (March 1, 1843). Dodge was a dentist in New York City who won an award for the “Best Incorruptible” artificial teeth on display at the American Institute Fair of in 1832. In 1835, Dodge won a premium gold medal, a silver medal, and a diploma for “the best Incorruptible Teeth, superior methods of inserting and fixing them in the mouth, and other improvements in Dental Surgery.”
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
label: Exhibition
content: Inventing In America
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-04157
label: catalog number
content: M-04157
label: accession number
content: 89797
label: patent number
content: 2,985
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dentures, Gold
label: Object Name
content: denture
label: Object Name
content: dental device
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: Dentures, Gold; Dentistry
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 2 1/8 in x 2 in; 1.5875 cm x 5.3975 cm x 5.08 cm