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Yithin historical times there never has been a period in which the teeth have not been an object of care and an occasion of pride.

Artificial teeth have been found in Egyptian mum- miesthe lady of King Tuts time and country had her beautiful "store teeth as well as her lipstick and perfumery quite on a par with our modern flapper indeed the only thing in which the modern Canadian can crow over her ancient Egyptian sister is in her bobbed hair.

The hard boiled historian of medicine says of these old artificial teeth that they are "an evidence that dentistry and dentists are at all events as old as the coquetry for which Egyptian women were notorious" (1).

In Ancient Greece, we find the odontoghiphon cor- responding to the Latin dentiscalpium which the lexi- cographers solemnly define: "quo ea quae dentibus inlmcrait eximuntur," , an instrument by which that which sticks in the teeth is taken out Anglice, a toothpick.

Then there are odontotrinnna, a denti- frice or powder for scrubbing the teeth and gums ; and apodontosis, abstersion of the filth around the teeth.