Show FALSE TEETH ARE CO COMMON NiMON artificial teeth arc are so cheap chear that nobody need lie toothless wo we sold more falso false teeth last year than wo ever disposed of before in a twelvemonth said the manager of the greatest dental supply establishment in the world to a it reporter yesterday 1 I dont imagine that atvas it wag because people aro are losing their teeth more rapidly now than heretofore although it is unquestionably the case that the end enduring aring quality of the human chowing chewing apparatus lias has become progressively less from generation to generation in this country it is moro more the fashion now than it has over ever been in the past to wear wea r false teeth partly for the reason that the public lias has come to realize what excellent substitutes they are for real ones and partly owing to the fact that excites much more disgust than it did in old times when such an affliction was commonly observed andaas and was regarded as unavoidable unavoidable it is very rare to see a person nowadays whether a man or a woman visibly disfigured by the absence of teeth anybody whose grinde rif fall out will in nearly every case go to a dental surg surgeon con and procure artificial ones they dont cost much you can get a complete double doub leset bet from sixteen dollars to sev enty five dollars probably a fashionable dentist dentis will twill charge you alfo latter price his margin of profit is considerable inasmuch as the teeth themselves cost only from fifteen to eighteen cents apiece they are made of porcelain of kaolin usually baked in fit an oven for the plates the material best approved is rubber the handsomest plates are made of celluloid and they have the advantage advant aige of lightness in I 1 weight but the celluloid does not resist well the acids with which it comes into contact in the mouth aluminium has been tried but it is affected by vinegar and salt as well as by other substances that are eaten the result being the development of a salt of aluminium which is thought to be injurious to the system the enamel of artificial teeth is composed of metallic oxides and the finishing processes to which they aro are subjected are so delicate that no two teeth produced can bo be made exactly alike in point of coloring among all the hundreds of thousands of teeth which we keep in stock probably no two would match to absolute perfection but those that are most nearly alike are put together so that the eye of nobody but an expert would detect any difference after all natural teeth exhibit marked dissimilarities in any individual it does not do to make false teeth look too ban handsome dome lest they appear unnatural and arid dental surgeons commonly carry their imitation of nature so far as to make teeth in many instances look more or loss less defective the better to carry out the deception Iv washington ashington star |