dental plate

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In Nottingham, England, Scottish Flyweight Champion Vic Herman found himself an ounce too heavy before he defended his title, reduced immediately by taking out his dental plate and its single tooth.

From Time Magazine Archive

President Grover Cleveland had cancer of the mouth, caused probably by the irritation of an ill-fitting dental plate rather than by heavy smoking.

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Rural, red-faced Stewart Andes Maples, a Rutherford Countian, let his dental plate fall twice as he inveighed against "infernal, shameful roadhouses," click-clacked his support of Roosevelt "as a good Samaritan."

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For the rest, O'Horgan simply grubs around in his museum of Halloweens Past and bemuses the audience with such papier-m�ch� wonders as a huge walking dental plate.

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In trying to stop him, the officer had broken his dental plate, the inmate complained; and all he’d been trying to swallow anyway, he said, was a written note.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover