
What Myths Has Modern Dentistry Debunked?
FOR AS LONG AS there have been people, there has been tooth decay, but people in past civilizations didn’t..
FOR AS LONG AS there have been people, there has been tooth decay, but people in past civilizations didn’t..
WE CAN SEE a hint of the state of dental health in Shakespeare’s England from a sonnet in which he describes his lady love’s reeking breath. The…
YOU PROBABLY HEARD the line “it takes fewer muscles to smile than to frown” when you were growing up, but…
WE TEND TO IMAGINE
that people from earlier eras must’ve had worse teeth than we do because…
ANYONE WHO REGULARLY swims might have noticed that your teeth are more sensitive after climbing…
BACK IN MEDIEVAL times in England (and in most other places, to be fair), people didn’t have a great understanding of what caused cavities…