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AN OCTOGENARIAN FEMALE PATIENT. I'm almost certain that some of these upper teeth are rather loose. Now I wonder why that is?

THE DENTIST (in tones of concern and astonishment). Just let me make certain which ones you mean.... Well, certainly, there is a tendency.... Of course, even modern science hasn't entirely got to the bottom of these things, you know ... there really seems no accounting for the slight Receding of the Gums that sometimes overtakes The Jaw in quite early Middle Life....

General Impression that this could hardly have been better—even if more accurately—worded.