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[write-light.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure your tooth line is supposed to be perfectly horizontal. Those look like Monty Python teeth. (http://smollin.com/store/reserve/Monty02.jpg)

[herbadness.livejournal.com]

She doesn't look even 30. I wonder if it was common for healthy, first world females to lose all their teeth by 30?

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Dentures used to be more common, but I think they just preferred showing a young, hot female in the ad to a grandmotherly denture-wearer. Also she could have had a partial set.

Also, a lot of times poor people have had perfectly healthy teeth pulled along with their bad ones if they had to have them all out for a set of dentures. Sucks, but sometimes you have to throw the baby out with the bath water.

Oh: and I found an unintended use for Poli-dent the other day: it cleans out your travel coffee cup! (My roommate wears dentures; actually it was Efferdent.)

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

This was in the days before fluoride so I don't think it was all that unusual. Maybe not ALL of them but one or two certainly went out the window.

[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

My paternal grandparents, at least, and their siblings, almost all had full or partial dentures, and probably would've been around this age at the time of this ad. I recall reading somewhere that poor dental health was one of the major reasons men were rejected from the military in WWII, but I could be wrong.

[pbrim.livejournal.com]

I don't know how common dentures were, but I know in the old pre-suplement days, conventional wisdom was that women could expect to lose a tooth for each pregnancy. Something about the mother's body leaching calcium from her to supply the fetus, if she didn't have enough in her diet, I think. My grandmother used to talk matter-of-factly about losing several teeth with each child.

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

It was definitely not out of the realm of possibility. My paternal grandmother, who was born in the late teens, had full dentures by age 25. My mother may have leveraged this fact with me to ensure dental hygiene compliance. I have hereditary terrible enamel from my dad, and I assume my grandmother suffered it too without the many advances that were available in my childhood.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

My stepmother was born in 1934 and she had all her teeth pulled in her 20s. I have never been quite clear about why and I don't want to bug her about it, but I guess there was a time when that was considered the best way to deal with certain conditions or something. Nowadays, you have to fight a dentist to get them to pull a tooth that you don't want to spend a fortune on to save.

[joebehrsandiego.livejournal.com]

Wow, that a creepily-rendered smile.

[siberian-cat.livejournal.com]

It's a Stepford Wife. Of course her teeth are false.