I have the miniseries on dvd. Every few years I rewatch it. Has anyone else noticed how beautiful everyone's teeth are? I know they are actors in 1978, but I don't think anyone had teeth like that in the 1800s..especially the Indians.
shareI gotta admit, I wondered about this, too -- but I guess while actors DO get into their roles, none of them back in 1978 were willing to wear fake teeth for their entire part... slightly different that body padding, hair pieces, etc.
Guess it's just the magic of TV!
Very little refined sugar, no ready availability of sweets like we have today.
sharelmao you're kidding, right? I thought for a minute you were sarcastic but... they had terrible terrible teeth. No sweets, sure, but no brushing, no dental hygiene of any kind, a regimen that included very few vitamins most of the time, dried meat... their teeth were rotten and crooked. This is 70ies tv. it's about as authentic as high school theatre.
For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco
Starchy foods cause more tooth decay than simple sugars. The reason ought to be obvious. Things like bread and cake stick to the teeth and particularly in crevices. Starches are complex carbohydrates and therefore sugars, but people, and quite often this includes dentists, sometimes don't get their heads past things like table sugar.
The 18th and 19th Century diet would have been REALLY high in starch, at least for white pioneers, mostly because it keeps.
As for the actors' teeth, they are extremely white even by Hollywood standards. Add that to the list of crap makeup and prosthetics in Centennial.
Gee, is your arm tired from beating that horse to death yet?
shareDid you not notice how nasty Clay Basket's mother's teeth were. As the show continued, Lame Beaver's teeth declined as well.
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