I Wanna Be a Pirate

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If he was a scurvy seadog those stained teeth would've dropped out and he'd be gumming his cutlass. I suspect him of eating his antiscorbutics. Not so piractical now, eh?

Ahh but they are not real teeth. They are false teeth carved out of the bones of dead whales and enemy sea swine!