A curious calculation has been made by an American physician, Dr Farrar. He estimates that no less than half a ton of pure gold, worth half a million of dollars, is annually packed into people’s teeth in the United States. At this rate, all the gold in circulation will be buried in the earth in three hundred years. He also calculates that three millions of artificial teeth are annually supplied, and that only one person in eight has sound teeth.
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Patea Mail, 8 February 1881, Page 3
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