Posted in Dentures Education. Tags: animal teeth, dentures, false teeth, history, materials, prosthetic devices, removable, what are.

Essentially speaking, dentures are prosthetic devices created as a replication of human teeth and are worn in the mouth in the event that natural teeth are missing. There are mainly two types of dentures: partial dentures, which substitute in the place only a few teeth and prevent other teeth from changing their position, and complete dentures, which replace all the teeth in the mouth. Your dentist will be more than glad to help you choose the type of dentures that are best suited for your particular needs depending on whether or not you will be replacing just some or all of your teeth.

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Posted in history. Tags: bacteria, bad breath, cachous, Chinese, dry mouth, Egyptians, halitophobia, Halitosis, Helicobacter pylori, history, Listerine, pseudo-halitosis, Toothpicks, Zenker's diverticulum.

Elena Conis has written an interesting article for the Los Angeles Times in which she discusses the history of bad breath. The Egyptians were the first to come up with the breath mint. The Chinese were the first to brush their teeth in order to eliminate bad breath. Breath fresheners (called cachous) became “must have” items in the 1800s.

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Posted in history. Tags: cornell university medical college, dentures, history, magnets, partial dentures, vitallium, yesteryear.

In 1957, a Cornell University Medical College professor developed a denture that was held in place by embedding powerful magnets in the patients jaw bone. Inserted into the upper and lower law, the magnets attached to other magnets that were buried in the denture.

This method, acknowledged even at the time as not being particularly effective, can be found in a September 23, 1957 article in Time magazine which describes not only the magnetic dentures, but also a “Vitallium latticework” implant.

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