The fascination with George Washington's false teeth could be attributable to various factors — that they're a medical curiosity from the 18th century, when dentistry was still just this side of ...

Susan P. Schoelwer, the Robert H. Smith senior curator at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, sinks her teeth into the truth about some famous dentures. Washington’s false (but not wooden) teeth ...

A set of George Washington's dentures. Nope. Washington had famously bad teeth. By the time he became president he only had one tooth left. To cover his lack of teeth, Washington wore dentures.

Madeleine Comora discussed the book she co-authored with Deborah Chandra, [George Washington's Teeth], published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Through the use of rhyming verses, the book describes ...

Long it has been told and often believed, that George Washington, the first president of the United States of America wore a ...

It was a love of walnuts -- specifically, his penchant for cracking their hard shells with his teeth. His real teeth. By the time of his first inauguration in 1789, they were mostly history as well.

The wooden teeth, the cherry tree, the "I cannot tell a lie, father" -- none of that is true. So let's see how much you do know about our first president . . . 1. George Washington's favorite ...

When we think of history lessons involving Washington, wooden teeth, wigs, and the Revolutionary War, come to mind; more interesting however was his relationship with slavery.

Author Robert Darnton talked about his book, [George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century], published by W.W. Norton and Company. The author defined the ...