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#1 Postby Janice » 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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#2 Postby coriolis » Sun May 14, 2006 9:28 pm

Now thats a question to chew on!
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#3 Postby Skywatch_NC » 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.

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#4 Postby Janice » 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.
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#5 Postby Janice » 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.
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