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Clare Briggs

Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.

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  1. Jaybird says:
    April 26, 2021 at 12:06 am

    Brandon Berg’s awesome comment:

    I got to thinking about Grandma’s facial profile. It’s something we don’t see a lot nowadays, especially in leaner people, but I think it’s a caricature of the effects of extensive tooth loss. There’s an example shown in this textbook. Without the teeth in place, the lips sink inwards, causing the nose and chin to appear more prominent. Furthermore, because the teeth aren’t in the way, the mandible can swing further towards parallel, causing the chin to stick out even further.

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  2. fillyjonk says:
    April 26, 2021 at 10:12 am

    Someone was commenting elsewhere about “why do old people look younger now than they do when we were kids?” (thinking of the fact that many of our parents are now the age our grandparents were at when we were kids, yet they look younger) and I said one reason was “better dental care.”

    I mean, I suspect the fact that dying ones hair has become more common (my mother, though, does not dye hers, and she looks younger in her early 80s than her mother did in HER early 80s). Perhaps better health care in general?

    But yeah: improved dental care (especially in terms of dental work being faster and less painful) is probably one of the unsung advances of the late 20th-early 21st century. Also more of us may be able to afford that care thanks to dental insurance plans – I had a tooth crowned that I probably would have just had pulled if I didn’t have dental coverage.Report

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