In 1960, Francis Wharton, a Canadian woodsman living near Little Fort, British Columbia, became famous for an unusual solution to his dental problems.
Having lost most of his upper teeth, he struggled to chew the meat he hunted and could not afford conventional dentures.
After shooting a deer, Wharton decided to use the animal's own teeth to make a replacement set.
He extracted the teeth, spent around three hours filing and grinding them into suitable shapes, and embedded them in a homemade gum base made from a material called Plastic Wood.
He then secured the teeth using ordinary household cement.
The makeshift dentures were surprisingly functional. Wharton reportedly wore them for nearly three years, with only one tooth breaking while he was eating particularly tough bear meat.
His remarkable invention was featured in the March 1960 issue of Guns magazine under the headline "Francis Wharton: Canada's Backwoods Wizard."
