Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1892 — Shades in False Teeth. [ARTICLE]

Shades in False Teeth.

It is a fact that is not generally known that false teeth have to be made to suit the complexion if satisfactory results are desired. A dentist walking on Chestnut street called attention to this fact as he passed a lady who in smiling showed a beautiful set of the whitest teeth. “Those teeth are too white,” he said. “She is a blonde and ought to have bluish-white teeth. A brunette can wear clear white teeth, but blondes should have bluish or cream tinted.” Then he mentioned that a friend of his had put in a set of perfectly white teeth for a lady who is very fair. He did it against his own judgment and only after the lady insisted strongly on it. She wore the set a few days and went back, saying the teeth were too conspicuous. She took a dark set the second time, and they cannot be told from natural ones. In all dentists have as many as thirty different shades in false teeth, and have to exercise much care in the selection.—Philadelphia Inquirer.