The White-Knuckle Adventures In Early Dentistry
With all those gleaming, stainless-steel tools readied for painful
prodding, few people look forward to visiting the dentist. But modern
dentistry is a walk in the park compared with archaic methods of
treating oral maladies: Be glad you're not seeking treatment for
mysterious 'tooth worms' or using dentures filled with the syphilitic
teeth of dead soldiers.
The
science of dentistry
and oral health wasn't fully understood until quite recently, so
Collectors Weekly took a look at the experimental techniques and failed
treatments of the last few thousand years.
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