There are a couple of things that most Americans know about George Washington: he fought in the Revolutionary War, he was the ...

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 ...

The founding father’s statue has stood in Capitol Square downtown since 1857 but hasn’t had a fresh coat of lacquer in 43 ...

The fascination with George Washington's false teeth could be attributable to various factors — that they're a medical curiosity from the 18th century, when dentistry was still just this side of ...

George Washington served as the first president of ... Other aspects of this Founding Father are less well-known—such as what his teeth were really made of and how his home of Mount Vernon ...

We all know the familiar stories about George Washington. The cherry tree he chopped down. (Except he didn’t.) The lies he never told. (Except he did.) His wooden teeth. (Except they weren’t ...

Spend the entire day telling the truth about George Washington as an enslaver who wore dentures consisting of stolen teeth that had been “yanked from the heads of his ‘slaves.’” ...

George Washington’s teeth are prized artifacts at Fraunces Tavern and the Academy of Medicine in Manhattan. Washington’s tooth at Fraunces Tavern One of George Washington’s teeth is on ...

Le Moyer first treated George Washington's teeth at his military headquarters in 1783. The following year, in May of 1784, Washington paid several unnamed "Negroes," presumably Mount Vernon slaves ...

The myth of George Washington's wooden chompers is ... a research specialist at the University of Virginia who has written about Washington's teeth. The story of Washington's dental woes resonates ...