Victorian Dentist remove all teeth for false teeth upon marriage to save money in the future?

[Hooa]

Arggghhhhh!!! Me and my younger brother were drinking and I don't know how but he came out with the title above and claimed he saw it on a documentary at about 3am 4 days ago!

Pretty much he is saying that in Victorian times it was very common for the man to pay the Dentist to remove all the woman's perfectly normal teeth and replace them with false teeth (dead peoples teeth) upon marriage (as a gift to the women?!?!) to save money in the future when their real teeth would keep going wrong over time!?

Now we nearly got into a heated argument over it as I just think it is completely ridiculous but he is like they did loads of stupid things back then, now I have tried googleing it and can not find anything!

Can anybody shed some light as to what he is on about?

Thanks a million

 

[Hooa]

Wow..... You really do learn something new every day! Thanks for the really detailed responses it's much appreciated. Makes me wonder why something so crazy was never mentioned at School! Much more mind blowing imo...So did the men do this to themselves too..? Or was their opinion on the cost saving a bit different when it came to themselves

I just can't understand why they never just removed the odd teeth that become bad, like I swear I hear about even today some old people/poor people do that..so why not then! Oh yeah education but still... Just seems so extreme!

Guess I got some apologising to do