Maybe There <i> Is </i> Free Lunch, If You Can Make It to 100
When Lorena Hinkle and Gillie Anderson turned 100 recently, their dentist gave them a special treat.
The dentist, Bryan Anderson, hired a limousine to take them to the posh Spokane Club for a birthday lunch of chicken and dumplings and baked Alaska.
“They both have enough teeth that I can take them out to lunch,” said Anderson, who is not related to Gillie Anderson. Hinkle has lost only four teeth while Anderson has about half of hers.
The women have a remarkable number of their own teeth considering they grew up in an era without fluoride-treated water, he said. As girls, they brushed with baking soda and salt and went to a dentist only for emergencies.
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