"Shockingly Realistic Sculpture Portrays Abraham Lincoln"

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I have read that Mrs. Surratt's teeth were also bad. We know that Lew Powell had dental problems. Most folk did - young and old. Nowadays it's difficult to find a 20 year old kid with really bad teeth. I, too had heard that a lot of barbers were outright dentists as well. But then the famous (or infamous) Doc Holliday, a Georgian, was a certified dentist - graduating from the Pennsylvania Dental College in 1872. An interesting side note to Holliday is that GWTW's author, Margaret Mitchell, was related to Holliday and was his cousin by marriage.
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Work with me for a week. Dental Hygiene in the rural areas of western Virginia and West Virginia harken back to these days of old.