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 ...

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 ...

The question of what President George Washington's false teeth were made of may be the oldest bit of trivia in the United States. But at the National Museum of Dentistry, it's anything but a trivial ...

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 ...

George Washington's Mount Vernon estate says it will no longer sell a souvenir depicting the founding father's false teeth amid criticism that Washington's dentures were made with teeth pulled from ...

In recent times, our political concerns have focused on the mental acuity, or lack thereof, of President Trump. But I’ve been more concerned with the dental issues of an earlier POTUS, George ...