Word: teething
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unique collection of 2000 hand-carved porcelain, teeth together with the instruments, apparatus and formulas used in their construction has recently been added to the small collection of handmade teeth which the Harvard Dental School possesses...
...formulas are extremely valuable as it is believed that they are the only ones in the possession of any museum which are scientifically accurate. The fine quality of the teeth in this collection shows the result of an extensive knowledge of chemistry, although the formulas were written when the art was still in its early stages...
...connection with the securing of the Eskimo teeth models from Commander MacMillan, Dr. Fernald arranged with Professor Hooton of the Peabody Museum at Harvard to secure impressions of the teeth of Yucatan natives during a southern expedition. These people are famous as vegetable eaters. Most of them eat no meat whatever. It was found that their teeth were very much decayed. At a surprisingly early age, their teeth lost all semblance of even a normally healthy condition, and most of them, when middle aged, had practically no teeth, whatever. It has been the experience of most dentists that those people...
Many of the models of the Eskimo teeth are perfect in every way, not having the slightest defect either of form or condition. Dr. Fernald states that is the 32 years of his dental practice he has seen only one set of teeth which were perfect in every respect...
...interest of anthropology and ethnology, as well as from an orthodontic standpoint. I consider extremely valuable, as much more data, can be obtained from models of a living person than from skulls. For instance, if the models show that the gums are apparently firm and tight around the teeth and have not receded that alone indicates to some extent a healthy mouth. From the fact that the arches are so even and well developed I should say that these people with so large arches are not mouth breathers, and therefore are not suffering from adenoids, enlarged tousils, and so forth...