There are a couple of things that most Americans know about George Washington: he fought in the Revolutionary War, he was the first president of the United States, and he had bad teeth.

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 ...

Thus George Washington, at age 16 ... And, of course, there are those sets of false teeth, not wooden but made from hippo tusks and other materials that pained him continually and deformed ...

Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at ... He wore crude, ill-fitting dentures of human teeth and ivory that hooked onto his one remaining tooth and made his gums ache.