A Toothy Story
So, we've all heard of George Washington's wooden teeth, right? I stumbled across an interesting thing about the history of teeth in Richard Zacks' An Underground Education. ( A very interesting book. Kind of like Uncle John's Bathroom Readers -full of short articles you never knew you wanted to know.) The article was about Washington's hippopotamus ivory dentures. Filled with human teeth. Likely from dead soldiers. Are we to the ewwwww factor yet? An MSNBC story goes further and states: "The dentures are made from gold, ivory, lead, human and animal teeth (horse and donkey teeth were common components)." And GoodTeeth.com has an…