We have all heard the tales about George Washington chopping down a cherry tree, throwing a silver dollar across the Potomac River and, of course, wearing wooden teeth. They are all just myths, but ...

Among the long-standing myths surrounding the first president of the United States, George Washington, is that he wore false teeth made out of wood. Though the evidence unambiguously confirms that ...

My Nobel Prize for Dentistry, recognising my work in establishing the link between dental cavities and sugar, marked the most ...

One of the star attractions at Baltimore's National Museum of Dentistry features President George Washington's dentures, which were made of hippopotamus ivory. The U.S.'s first president had only one ...

Here’s the only way that intelligent Black people and honest white people should celebrate Presidents’ Day on Feb. 20: Spend the entire day telling the truth about George Washington as an enslaver who ...

President George Washington’s teeth weren’t made of wood from brown trees. They were made of enamel from Black humans. But like branches being forcibly yanked from trees for aesthetically functional ...