February 6, 2004
A Brush With History
It takes only a few minutes of peering into the felt-lined drawers filled with heavy, iron tooth-extraction keys, examining the collections of pearl- and ebony-handled probes, and staring up at the museum display cases brimming with tiny sets of false teeth before the feeling overwhelms: I should have flossed.
It's a pretty common reaction, says Scott D. Swank, the curator. And hardly unintended. What kind of dentistry museum would this be if it didn't guilt visitors into thinking
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