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Peatle
i love that title,great story.
when the dentist has finished mucking around in my mouth,i usually say.
sometimes    maybe    no     i will if i remember    perhaps next month
then he gives me a funny look,i say, hey, thats the answers to all the things you asked me when you had ya hands in my mouth.
can`t afford to be too cheeky,after all hes the guy with the needle.

Cheers TIG, EB and Phill great to have your input on teeth. I would be interested to hear other peoples stories about teeth also. I was thinking about maybe putting this under poems but then thought it wasn't really a poem so I put it up as a chat.  Here is something I recently read about teeth that interested me. The Battle of Waterloo (1815) saw about 43,500 men killed, most of who were buried in mass graves. Generally young and healthy, their teeth were pulled as part of the interment process. Barrels of teeth flooded the market and were shipped all over the world. British soldiers were expected to care for their teeth because they needed to be able to bite their cartridges open; every second soldier was issued with a toothbrushed to be shared with one other.    In 1815, dentistry as we know it today was in its infancy - and the mouths of the rich were rotten. So they took teeth for their dentures from the bodies of tens of thousands of dead soldiers on the battlefield at Waterloo.

say it aint so you have to PAY for dental work? and the guy that worked for free did a better job?  lol i suppose we will have to start paying mechanics and plumbers next. smart a@# remarks aside that is a great story Peatle. i opt for classical gas when i go to the dentist.

Hello Mojo the thing that  interests me about paying for a dentist here in New Zealand is health insurance and  dentist cover are two seperate things,  I always think of my teeth as part of my health not a seperate thing.
TIG and Phill this is what I have just found out about George Washington and his teeth after reading your comments.
George Washington (1732–1799) suffered from problems with his teeth throughout his life, and historians have tracked his experiences in great detail.  He lost his first adult tooth when he was twenty-two and had only one left by the time he became president. John Adams says he lost them because he used them to crack Brazil nuts but modern historians suggest the mercury oxide, which he was given to treat illnesses such as smallpox and malaria, probably contributed to the loss. He had several sets of false teeth made, four of them by a dentist named John Greenwood. None of the sets, contrary to popular belief, was made from wood or contained any wood. The set made when he became president was carved from hippopotamus and elephant ivory, held together with gold springs. Prior to these, he had a set made with real human teeth, likely ones he purchased from "several unnamed Negroes, presumably Mount Vernon slaves" in 1784. Washington's dental problems left him in constant pain, for which he took laudanum.

I have read that Washington had wooden teeth and years ago when we went to Mt. Vernon that is also what they were made from wood painted white.  I guess white paint also contained lead.

Thank you and I watched the video. It is surprising since even on the tour of Mt. Vernon our guide said he had wooden teeth. Guess he needed more training. I can see from his dentures why he never smiled.  I would think eating at all was hard for anyone who wore the early dentures. Can you imagine going to an early dentist with the pain that went with it? Makes you wonder how many teeth the early dentist had.

Cheer TF first time I have seen a  Jim Unger Herman comic strip I enjoyed that it reminded me of Gary Larson The  Far Side Cartoons.

And who could forget Bunker Hill..... birthplace of Forensic Dentistry !!