"BEIM ZAHNARZT": An 1899 Viennese Incisor Implant: A Case Report

About 122 years ago, in Vienna, a dandy fellow wearing a top hat and Sunday-go-to-church custom-fitted suit, presented to a dentist for treatment. The gentleman's chief complaint was that he was "missing an upper front tooth and even when I'm dressed to the nines, none of my lady friends would go out to dinner and dancing with me"(Fig. 1). The patient was in no acute distress and explained that he had lost his shirt and golden front tooth four years prior, in a poker game, when his three Kings and two Jacks nose-dived under the four Aces laid down by the card player to his left.