The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry: The Golden Smile through the AgesThe Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan culture, and their place within the framework of a general history of dentistry, with special emphasis on appliances, from Bronze Age Mesopotamia and Egypt to modern Europe and the Americas. Included are many of the ancient literary sources that refer to dentistry - or the lack thereof - in Greece and Rome, as well as the archaeological evidence of ancient dental health. The book challenges many past works in exposing modern scholars’ fallacies about ancient dentistry, while presenting the incontrovertible evidence of the Etruscans’ seemingly modern attitudes to cosmetic dentistry. |
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correcting | |
a lost Etruscan invention | |
Dental appliances and dentistry after the Etruscans to | |
Catalogue of Etruscan and Romanera dental appliances | |
Concluding remarks | |
Amulets and votives resembling | |
Pliny on cures for oral pathologies | |
Evidence for dental extractions in ancient | |
Report on analysis of gold bands in Liverpool | |
Bibliography | |
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