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Show GOLD TEETH OUT OF STYLE Present Trend Is to Preserve Tooth and Make It Look as Much Like Original as Possible. Gold teeth are going" out of style, according to practitioners and dental experts. The present trend is to preserve pre-serve the tooth to make It look as near as possible like it was originally. If this can't be done the offending molar or incisor must be pulled out. The idea of pulling teeth is something some-thing comparatively new in American dentistry. The tendency was to save the tooth at all costs. But dentisls have discovered that gold crowns are unhealtliful and permit foreign matter to get into the teeth. Bridge work also is not as popular popu-lar as it once was. To make a bridge two good teeth were tiled down as anchors for the mass of gold in be-. be-. tween. If the bridge failed the two good teeth on the ends went with It. Now dentists recommend a plate of false teeth instead of the bridge. These being removable, are easily kept clean. The dental science Is now spending its energies more on serviceable serv-iceable plates rather than on bridges or crowns. New Y'ork Sun. |