wooden teeth
Carved oral prosthetics
Wooden teeth are dentures or false teeth made from wood, associated with early dentistry before modern materials.
The phrase appears most often in the popular but largely inaccurate story that George Washington had wooden teeth—his dentures were actually made from ivory, metal, and human teeth.
The old myth about Washington's wooden teeth persists in American folklore.
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