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Show FALSE TEETH. What BMomn of the Myriad? Thm. Made Every YearT What becomes of the hundreds of thousands of artificial teeth made and sold annually? Before attempting ti answer the question it may be as well to consider how these artificial teeth are made. When plates were discovered discov-ered and the expert dentist was ablet to supply a whole mouthful of new teeth the teeth themselves were carved out of Ivory. But constant grinding would wear away the ivory, and these elephant teeth were not satisfactory. To-day all artificial teeth are made of porcelain, and will outlast a Methuselah. Methuse-lah. The porcelain material, which contains various mineral proportions, is worked up like a sort of dough or plaster, forced into molds and fused by intense heat in a furnace. Each, tooth is covered with enamel, and has one or more metal pins in the back. to noia it to the plate. In large lots these teeth can be made very cheaply but there is one item of expense that cannot be overcome, and that is the cost of the metal holding pin. The-only The-only metal which will stand the intense in-tense heat of the porcelain furnace is platinum, and that costs at the rate-of rate-of a cent a pin simply for the raw material. But as there are people who are not satisfied with ready-made clothing, so there are people who are not satisfied with ready-made teeth. False teeth may look just as well or better than real ones, but public speakers, speak-ers, singers and other prominent people peo-ple want their own teeth reproduced in all their peculiarities of form and color, and fillings, if they have them. In teeth that are made to order nothing noth-ing is impossible, from the short, white teeth of normal youth to the-long, the-long, discolored ones of extreme age. And now for the answer to the question, ques-tion, "What becomes of false teeth?" Sometimes they are lost, sometimes: stolen and sometimes left as a family legacy. Generally, however, they are buried with the owner and lie forever hidden in the ground. Cincinnati Enquirer. |