It is often suggested that historical portraits avoided smiles because of poor dental hygiene, but in reality, social ...

(Except they weren’t – they were ivory dentures and real teeth extracted ... Richard Brookhiser (“Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington”) remarked on his “well developed ...

No, George Washington did not have wooden teeth — though he did famously sport dentures. However, the massive amount of Madeira wine Washington consumed stained his false teeth so dark that the ...