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Mr Dickens missing teeth

BDJ In Practice volume 35, page 28 (2022)Cite this article

The celebrations at Christmas owe a lot to the Victorians, as we hang up our stockings for the children's presents and decorate the Christmas tree. It is a time when the books by Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol in particular, experience a resurgence of interest.

But it was almost six months after dismantling the decorations from last year that I noticed this unusual headline in The Times: 'For Charles Dickens it was the best of times …. But the worst of teeth'.

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  1. The Dickens Society. Dental Afterlives: Dickens and Victorian Dentistry. 2021. Available online at: https://dickenssociety.org/archives/3102 (accessed November 2022).

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    David Croser

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Croser, D. Mr Dickens missing teeth. BDJ In Pract 35, 28 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41404-022-1822-8

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