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Show Sixty-Pound Bite Every time your teeth bite through a juicy steak you exercise a jaw pressure of 60 pounds. Fortunately, For-tunately, the human jaw is endowed en-dowed with sufficient strength to take this strain, as was demonstrated demon-strated by Dr. Ralph Boos of Minneapolis, Min-neapolis, at a recent dental convention. con-vention. Dr. Boos used a machine known as a gnathodynamometer to demonstrate the biting power of a man's jaw, and he also showed that the average woman has a bite only of 25-30 pounds. The jaw structure of a woman is more delicate than that of a man, and usually her teeth are easier to extract. |