Teeth
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 9:15 pm
I heard that George Washington and early people wore wooden dentures or false teeth. How did they keep them in their mouth? Wouldn't glue have been poisonous?
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Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 9:28 pm
Now thats a question to chew on!
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 9:50 pm
No wonder Washington never smiled...from what I've read in the past...the wooden appliance tore up his gums to heck. 
Splinters from constant slipping obviously.
Eric
Splinters from constant slipping obviously.
Eric
Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 9:56 pm
He must have only wore them for appearance and took them out when eating and alone at home.
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 3:26 am
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6875436/
BALTIMORE - Researchers hoping to dispel George Washington's image as a stiff-jawed, boring old man are taking a bite out of history through a high-tech study of his famous false teeth.
The researchers were in Baltimore on Tuesday to perform laser scans on a set of Washington's dentures at the National Museum of Dentistry — dentures, they say, that were not made of wood as commonly believed.
Scientists and historians plan to use the information to help create new, expressive, life-sized figures of plaster and wax to show aspects of the 6-foot-3 Washington's personality they consider underappreciated.
Laser scans find gold, ivory, lead, human and animal teeth
Read the whole article, interesting.
BALTIMORE - Researchers hoping to dispel George Washington's image as a stiff-jawed, boring old man are taking a bite out of history through a high-tech study of his famous false teeth.
The researchers were in Baltimore on Tuesday to perform laser scans on a set of Washington's dentures at the National Museum of Dentistry — dentures, they say, that were not made of wood as commonly believed.
Scientists and historians plan to use the information to help create new, expressive, life-sized figures of plaster and wax to show aspects of the 6-foot-3 Washington's personality they consider underappreciated.
Laser scans find gold, ivory, lead, human and animal teeth
Read the whole article, interesting.