Show iss 2 I 1 aleffi i f CIAL 1 I 1 HOW THEY ARE MADE AND WHAT BECOMES OF THEM which their halk 1 th I he perfection to ing ilan d in syle style shape nud olur olor Not hinig I 1 is inal to dental tr HU tired of thousands shousan ds of artificial teeth are manufactured and sold every enery beir ye r hat ix of them t Iti it is like at king tin what If becomes tomes 0 of f pina plus nn art I 1 other things N which hibb are practically aude true tible before making a gness gum it is worth m hile to consider how bow artificial teeth are made the story storys is told annan innan in lan of a sea captain who was a great gre at whistler until he lost one of his front teeth by acci cental contact rith mith a abe be laying pin for some sometime liine he be bemoaned big lot accomplish accomplishment men t until he be fonn foun I 1 that he could m whistle very well m etith ith an artificial tooth whittled out of a piece of cod when a performance as desired he be would mould calmly carve out an in bisor an I 1 put it in position then the ouli au hence ence would wait until the tooth swelled smelled the moisture of hie his month mouth so that it would not slip out N hen lieu plates were discovered and the expert dentist was able to supply a whole m hole mouthful of new teeth the teeth themselves were carved out ot of ivory but constant cout tant grinding would m wear away am ay the lie ivory and these elephant teeth were mere not satisfactory today all artificial teeth are made of porcelain and will mill outlast a meth III belah those which are known in the trade as stern teeth being carried in tock stock by the big dental supply houses hons ea are manufactured in enormous ties the porcelain material which con bains various arious mineral proportions la Is worked rip like a sort of dough or plas ter forced into molds and fused by in tense heat in a furnace each tooth la is with enamel and has one or more were metal pins in the back to hold it to the plate in large lota lots these teeth can be made very cheaply but buttliere there is one item of u that cannot be overcome and that is the co ot cot t of the metal holding the pin the only metal which m will ill stand the mien e heat of the porcelain fur uuie note i IQ platinum and that costs at the rate of a cent a pin simply for the raw A great deal of money has leen teen spent in experiments to discover some P institute tnt for pla tinnin nm but noth in tug bag yet been foaud talf i cheap gra loot store teeth ran rail be bought for a few cents apiece they are re not nearly as satisfactory aa as the standard commercial tom mercial article NA inch ie Is u id cd by most dentists A big supply company will carry hundreds of samples of DI teeth all of standard qualities but differing greatly in size share and col or lu tolor alone from 2 25 to ana naria eions may be I 1 re relented tented but no a there are people who are not soil fied with ready made clothing so there are people who are not satisfied with mith ready made teeth fake falbe teeth teet h may look just as well or better than real ones but public speakers singers and other prominent people want their own teeth reproduced in all their lecul iari landies ties of form and color and fillings ac f they have them they want teeth that cannot be told aa as false fahe and they get them not all at once perhaps but one by one as the originals give out in teeth that are made to order noth ing is impossible from the short abort white teeth of normal youth you tit to the long die dis colored ones of extreme age and the prices range like those of watches the teeth are set in plates of rubber gold and aluminium but the highest achievement is considered to be a plat inurn upon which has been fused a lining of tinted porcelain similar to that ned for gum work tinted i latea lates have been mede of the same material as the teeth but as the porcelain shrinks in the firing the fitting of euch such plates is uncertain and now for the answer to the ques tion I 1 what becomes of false teeth sometimes they ere 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 it is 14 occasionally suggested that there Is quite a business in secondhand false teeth but it if there is such a traffic it la 39 not of large proportions secondhand teeth are valuable only for the platinum wire that they contain and when m hen they fall into the bands hands of regular teeth makers they are smashed up to get the platinum out not long ago a man who found a double set of teeth went with them to a dealer thinking that he be had a prize the finder was nas surprised when the deal er refused to make an offer and said that 10 cents a set was all they were worth to any one but the person whose ee mouth they fitted the expensive teeth are not market able and the marketable teeth are not expensive that ie the whole thing in a it nutshell yet teeth have been need used over A lady went to a dentist with a set of teeth which bad had belonged to her moth er who m was as dead she said that she bad had always admired those teeth when her mother wore them and now that her own were gone she wanted the old get iset re mounted for herself it waa done boston herald herold |