Very early attempts at Dentures were tried, though with little success.
"Am I Still There?"
James R. Hall
In children, coins predominate and are nearly always arrested at the level of the upper end of the sternum; in adults, Dentures are the commonest foreign bodies, and may be impacted anywhere.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson
If each hospital had had a dentist attached to it as a matter of routine, and a couple of mechanics for repairing Dentures, receiving the same pay as a doctor, the problem of teeth, which is always troublesome, would have been to a considerable extent solved.
"In Mesopotamia"
Martin Swayne