“13,000-Year-Old Fillings Prove Ancient Dentistry Was Brutal”

“13,000-Year-Old Fillings Prove Ancient Dentistry Was Brutal”

 

An early dentist's chair
Long before even this early dentist’s chair — which, frankly, looks like an instrument of execution in an early twentieth-century penitentiary  (Wikimedia Commons public domain)

 

Are you one of those wimps who seek out “sedation dentists” so that you don’t have to experience the stress and sometimes the pain of having even a routine dental checkup?

 

Are you just a pathetic shadow of your ancestors?

 

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/04/10/ancient-dentistry-tooth-filling/#.WOxixmW0zdl

 

As a special bonus, here’s Steve Martin in the “Dentist Song” from Little Shop of Horrors:

 

 

 


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