One hundred years ago the smile you were born with or grew soon there after, was pretty much as good as it got.  In fact, you could probably count on things getting worse as you got older and at best you could expect false teeth if you could afford them in cash.

These days we have many new options to make your smile as good as that of a movie star's.  In addition to straightening your teeth with braces, you can have your smile brightened up with veneers.

A veneer is simply something that goes on the outside face of your teeth.  It can be composite veneers, made of a composite of materials that is applied to your tooth.  It can also be porcelain and can then be bonded directly to the exterior of your teeth. 

You do not have to have your teeth pulled to end up with a perfect looking smile. You can also maintain your teeth just like you would today, brushing and flossing as you still have the same teeth, they just get a makeover!

You do not have to shell out a fortune going to an orthodontist, you can simply go to a dentist to have the procedure done.  Its easier than having a cap or filling put on your teeth and painless as well.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• The Head Lice – Treatment
  
  

  The Head Lice.—They are grayish in color with blackish margins and show a reddish tinge due to the blood they have sucked from their victim. The eggs or nits are seen attached to the hair shafts on the scalp at some distance from the end of the hair and are tiny white or grayish pear-shaped bodies seen upon close examination.

  The treatment today, 100 years after this treatment was written in the Book of Medicine, things are not a great deal easier.  Its not like a person can even brush their hair with some sort of device that would zap head lice like air can be purified with an IQAir filter.

  TREATMENT.-It is necessary to remove eggs and adults at the same time, so wet the hair thoroughly with crude petroleum (from any drug store) keep hair wet for three hours, then wash whole head with warm water and soap. Repeat this wash once a day for three successive days. The eggs can then be removed by combing the hair with a fine tooth comb wet with vinegar. Where possible the treatment can be made more thorough and permanent if the hair is cut short.

• SECTIONAL VIEW OF THE BRAIN, FACE AND THROAT
  
  

  Today were looking at another section, this one reviewing the brain, face and throat. I warn you in advance that the review is somewhat incomplete by the authors of the book and it’s more a review of the image that of any actual body parts. Before you too far into this section I just mention that this seems to be an initial trend of using many words to describe nothing. It’s possible that this medical book was the Seinfeld of its day.

  The Brain And Its Bony Citadel.- the arches, with true anatomical instinct in a rare technical ability in regard to accuracy in minute detail, has performed as part of the work in this illustration with such faithful fidelity to nature that one cannot withhold a word of praise at the grand style and elaborate manner of its execution. This elegant and artistic anatomical plate represents the brain held firmly in position within its strong bony citadel, but collect and 20 from above downward, thus showing its internal mechanism and construction; besides which it gives the internal arrangements of the nose, tongue, throat and neck.

  This initial section, or rather the first paragraph of the of this section provides more praise to the artist and description of the actual topic, which in case you missed it is a picture showing a cross-section of the human head and neck to include the spinal column.  The image is labeled correctly and is in color.the same picture could’ve been provided in a textbook as late as 20 or 30 years ago at a grade school or high school level.  The diagram is accurate as far as labels and body parts are concerned, however they’re drawing and rendering are somewhat untrue to form and don’t exactly provide the insights into the function of the movable parts quite like we may see a representation today.

  The diagram for the tongue in particular is somewhat peculiar looking and seems to show an example of the tongue lopped off or half swallowed.  This aspect of the drying is a little odd, and I suspect the artist may have taken some liberties in their drawing to expedite the process and that all the pieces in their approximate space.

• Modern Science Gives us Vision
  
  

  One of the things that the Great Workman (see my last post) do not give us as people is universal good vision.  When I was in fifth grade my vision went south and I had start wearing glasses.  A few years later when I went in the eighth grade I tried wearing contacts.  They were hard contacts and I remember walking out of the doctors office being amazed that I could see the leaves on the trees. 

  Since they were hard contacts I stopped wearing them within about two weeks.

  A few years later disposable contacts came out and I bought my first box of disposable contact lenses for about $100 a box, that included about six contacts in each box and I needed two boxes one for each eye.

  The work contact lenses for the next 10 years and the prices really went down and I started to purchase my contact lenses online.  I haven’t worn any contact lenses since 2001 I have LASIK surgery.

  I was amazed today to see just how cheap contact lenses have become.  I was looking through a contact lenses site and noticed the prices of the contacts I used to purchase were now down to about $10 a box.

  

  Notice the price of the Acuvue 2 lenses!

  When I decided to have LASIK, I partially made my decision based on how much it would cost to keep buying contacts and  glasses over the next 10 years.Prices of drop dramatically and my choice probably would’ve been different if I had made that decision today.