University of Maryland Baltimore Dental School - Mirror Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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TEETH You are fairly complete when you are born, except for teeth. You have to wait for them. And they are no fun when they are coming. Then you have hardly got accustomed to your teeth when it is time for them to be replaced by a whole new set. Some are obstinate about coming out and have to be pulled. There is little fun in that, either. So at last you have a full set of permanent teeth and should be able to assume ) ' our troubles are ended. Not so. They ache. They have to be filled. Before they can be filled they have to be drilled by a kindly dentist who says, This is going to hurt a little. His idea of little isn ' t yours. Teeth have to be brushed. Things get between them and etiquette frowns on toothpicks that could bring comfort. The nerves in the teeth begin to die, but not all the way. So they have to be put out of their misery. It is not a painless death. And, oh yes, teeth have to be straightened with braces that do not make for beauty. Considering the amount of work that has been done on your teeth you might imagine there was no space left for a new filling. But the dentist can always find one. And the fillings that are in fall out at inconvenient times. Having passed through all the prehminary stages you are at last ready for extractions. And bridge work. And plates. And whole sets of false teeth. Are you rheumatic? Does it hurt you when you raise your arm like that? Your teeth instantly come under suspicion. Suppose that arms and legs, skulls and torsos, tibias, fibulas, and femurs, and other parts of the human body were as unreliable as teeth; and as frequently subject to breakdowns. Suppose, like teeth, they had to be replaced, filled, bridged and extracted. What a pickle we would be in. Christopher Billopp Reprinted from The Evening Sun, January 2, 1949.