Why do teeth decay? In our modern, enlightened tim... ...in the mouth. But in Ancient and Medieval Europe, dentistry attributed tooth decay to worms that resided insi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/07/16/Before-Modern-Dentistry-People-Thought-Tooth-Worms-Were-Responsible-for-Tooth-Decay/View this post on Instagram A post shared by Evan Duffy (@eduff2) The Dodo introduces us to Patrick Seligman, a diver in Hawaii. On his occasional dives, he visits an animal dental office beneath the surface of the wat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/04/14/Helpful-Shrimp-Cleans-the-Teeth-of-Diver/Some human teeth have been found in Italy that sho... ...th have been found in Italy that show evidence of dentistry around 13,000 years ago, even earlier than the de... ...food out of the pulp chamber, just like in modern dentistry , says Benazzi.It couldn't have been pleasant. Rea...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/04/08/Ice-Age-Dentistry/The Predator forgot the dental module of his med-kit while packing for his hunting trip on Earth. Now he's having a rough time at the dentist's office.Artist Simon Lee made this funny, detailed sculpture after listening...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/21/Sculpture-of-the-Predator-at-the-Dentist/The current thinking about the history of dentistry tells us that humans didn’t have many denta... ...eloped. A 14,000-year-old skull shows evidence of dentistry , in which a decayed tooth was deliberately scrape... ...hether a stone-tipped bow-drill could function in dentistry...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/03/Dental-Drilling-is-Older-Than-We-Thought/Embed from Getty ImagesWhen it comes to dentists... ...e that want to "bite the bullet," there are a few dentistry industry secrets of which it might benefit us to... ...sposable clips.Read fourteen more facts about the dentistry business at mental_floss.
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/02/04/15-Behind-the-Scenes-Secrets-of-Dentists/The Following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research.(Image credit: Teddychen81)by Kurt Vial, Improbable Research staffBits of Dental Fear“Good Teeth, Bad Teeth, and Fear of the Dentist,” Richie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/08/11/Dental-Fear/The following is an article from The Annals of Improbable Research.by Marc Abrahams, Improbable Research staffFrench teeth are something of a specialty for the president of Great Britain’s Royal Historical Society....
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/07/14/Some-Missing-Teeth-in-Old-France/To promote Salta Beer, the ad agency Ogilvy Argentina designed a tooth implant that functions as a bottle opener. It then had a dentist screw the implants into the jaws of three rugby players who had lost teeth in action...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/05/01/Rugby-Players-Have-Missing-Teeth-Replaced-with-Bottle-Openers/(Portrait by Rembrandt Peale)As he aged, George Washington gradually lost his teeth. Throughout his life, he consulted a variety of dentists to provide dentures for him.In 1781, General Washington commanded the army watc...
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