Museum proud to display Washington’s teeth

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The National Museum of Dentistry, based in Baltimore, Maryland, has lauded the false teeth of former President George Washington as its prize attraction. The museum displays the dentures as it’s featured exhibit, alongside a number of antique and interesting dental equipment.

An associate of the Smithsonian Institution said the museum aimed to brand itself as ‘The Smile Experience,’ and was supported in the museums praise by it’s director of communications, Amy Pelsinsky; ‘We have a really light-hearted and humorous approach to the history of dentistry and all things tooth-related.’ Washington’s teeth are the top exhibit because many visitors come to discover what they were really made of, as the subject is an old trivia question in the US. The teeth, made from hippo ivory and not wood in Philadelphia, are displayed alongside Queen Victoria’s personal dental equipment, a display of old toothbrushes throughout history and a model of an Arctic whale with a tooth growing out of its head.

The National Museum of Dentistry gets around ten thousand visitors every year and George Washington’s teeth have proven to be the biggest attraction.

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