#ancient dentistry

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What’s the Deal With People Finding Human Fossils in Their Travertine Tiles?

One Reddit user and their family found an artifact that looks like a human jaw in their new floors

“The item found in the travertine floors could have been something that died around the spring or died somewhere else and was washed into the region and covered in the travertine. Those are the two most likely scenarios,” [Dr. Andrew Leier, chair of the Geological Society of America’s sedimentary geology division] explains. But is it a human jaw? “It absolutely looks like one,” say Amber D. Riley, MS, RDH, the immediate past president of American Society of Forensic Odontology, and Anthony R. Cardoza, DDS, a forensic dentistry consultant, in a joint email to AD. The arch shape and tooth anatomy appear human, but perhaps the most unusual finding is that it looks like the person may have had dental work done. “There appear to be absent teeth and the bone tissue has filled into where the teeth once were. Another human potentially intervened and removed teeth due to injury or disease,” they explain.

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Dental practices date back thousands of years and has evolved over the years to the modern dentistry we know today. Take a look at how the practice has evolved over the years and how important these early dental practices were.

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Did you know?

The famous barber's pole, found outside of many barbershop establishments today, is a tradition that dates back to the Middle Ages. It represents a place where a barber performs their craft. During medieval times, barbers performed surgery on customers, including tooth extractions. Historically, the colors found on the barber's pole represented bloody bandages on a pole, signifying the barber's services. Did you know, you could have gone to a barber, not only to get your hair cut, but also to have a tooth extracted? Dentistry has definitely evolved!

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Beeswax as Dental Filling

Here is a link to an article in this week's Huffington Post about the discovery of a beeswax dental filling in a 6500 year old human tooth found in Slovenia.  Do you think we should start offering honeycomb fillings? Ancient Tooth Found In Slovenia Suggests Beeswax Used To Treat Toothache

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Human teeth fossils reveal ancient dentistry

An article featured on Science Daily reveals that dentistry may have been “practiced” even before the word itself was coined. A 6,500-year-old human jaw bone with a canine tooth showing traces of beeswax filling has been found and is believed to be evidence of ancient dentistry. Image credit: sciencedaily.com Led by researcher Federico Bernardini and Claudio Tuniz of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Italy, in cooperation with Sincrotrone Trieste and other institutions, the discovery suggests that beeswax was applied around the time of the individual’s death. The beeswax application was intended to reduce the pain and sensitivity acquired from a vertical crack in the enamel and dentin layers of the individual’s tooth. According to Tuniz, the damage in the tooth may have been caused by its use in “non-alimentary activities,” such as weaving, which was generally performed by Neolithic females. Image credit: moddb.com The specimen was found in Slovenia near Trieste. The researchers note that evidence of prehistoric dentistry is sparse, so they hope that the discovery could help them understand early dental practices more deeply. “This finding is perhaps the most ancient evidence of pre-historic dentistry in Europe and the earliest known direct example of therapeutic-palliative dental filling so far,” says Bernardini. The study was made as a part of the ICTP/Elettra EXACT Project (Elemental X-ray Analysis and computed Tomography), funded by the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Image credit: philly.com California Smile Design is a Newport Beach, California-based dental clinic led by American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry-accredited dentist Dr. Emil Hawary. For more information about dentistry, visit the company’s official website.

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The earliest evidence of ancient dentistry we have is an amazingly detailed dental work on a mummy from ancient Egypt that archaeologists have dated to 2000 BCE. The work shows intricate gold work around the teeth. This mummy was found with two donor teeth that had holes drilled into them. Wires were strung through the holes and then around the neighboring teeth.

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Ancient Scalers

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