All men's teeth are naturally in a state of total decay or caries, and, therefore, no man can bite until every one of them is extracted and a new set is inserted according to the principles of dentistry adopted by this Society.
I, for one, should want to discuss that before signing my name to it, and I should say this:--Why, no, that is n't true.

There are a good many bad teeth, we all know, but a great many more good ones.

You must n't trust the dentists; they are all the time looking at the people who have bad teeth, and such as are suffering from toothache.

The idea that you must pull out every one of every nice young man and young woman's natural teeth! Poh, poh! Nobody believes that.

This tooth must be straightened, that must be filled with gold, and this other perhaps extracted, but it must be a very rare case, if they are all so bad as to require extraction; and if they are, don't blame the poor soul for it! Don't tell us, as some old dentists used to, that everybody not only always has every tooth in his head good for nothing, but that he ought to have his head cut off as a punishment for that misfortune! No, I can't sign Number One.