FALSE TEETH AS "ART"

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 142, 12 December 1935, Page 29

FALSE TEETH AS "ART"

A suggestion that he had enhanced the beauty of a woman client by his professional services was made by a dentist in Clerkenwell County Court. The dentist, Francis Talbot, Southwood Lane, Highgate, sued Miss. Helen M. Robinson, Sackville Lodge, Bex-hill-on-Sea, for £8 for services rendered and materials supplied. Plaintiff said he supplied defendant with artificial plates to take the place of others. When he showed her the effect in a mirror she remarked that he had altered her appearance. He (told her he thought it was an improvement. She refused to pay for the dentures. Cross-examined by Mr. Quintin Hogg, for defendant, he agreed that when Miss Robinson wrote to him telling him what friends had said about the effect of the new teeth on her appearance he replied: "I have given a lifetime to the study of artistic dental work and I can afford to ignore people who are incapable of forming an opinion about a work of art." "How false teeth can be described as a

work of art I don't know," said Mr. Registrar Friend. Miss Robinson put the dentures in her mouth and the Registrar invited her to smile. "Smile more. Look natural and press the teeth together," he said. "Teeth that fit.should not wobble like that.. The aesthetic question is outside the purview^:,of _lb.e^ s c.ftur,t ; ," .commented the Registrar, ■giving' judgment .'for defendant' with costs.