DENTISTRY IN ANCIENT DAYS.
The museums of Rome and other places in Italy possess various specimens of dentists’ work dating from before Christ, and another such specimen has recently been discovered in the jaws of a skeleton found in a tomb at Teano. The skeleton is that of a woman, and from the jaws there were extracted a gold mount containing six teeth.
A peculiar fact about, the find is that the teeth, although "flapped” with gold, were undoubtedly natural, and the theory is formed that the ancients used gold flaps or rims, to steady Iqosc teeth. For artificial teeth the dentists of the old world had a fancy for annual teeth : especially bovine, by reason of their hardness. though occasionally a person in poverty would sell one for sufficient consideration.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2083, 9 March 1908, Page 7
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131DENTISTRY IN ANCIENT DAYS. Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2083, 9 March 1908, Page 7
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