delivered to the museum in the early 1970s - in a small white box, described: Hans Christian Andersen's disinfected teeth from the upper part of his mouth. Hans Christian Andersen got new dentures in March 1873 after loosing his last tooth in January that same year. One of Hans Christian Andersen's last fairy-tales, "Aunty Toothache", from 1872 is about toothache as well as dentures.
