When you're a caveman with a toothache, you've got to figure you're just about as screwed as it's possible to get but it turns out the ancient troglodytes in our ancestry had some moves. (UPI: World's oldest dental fillings found in Italy)
In addition to the new discovery, researchers have previously discovered beeswax used for fillings in ancient teeth
Photo by Federico Bernardini/PLOS ONE
Their collection procedures were probably a little different for the situation when you fall behind on payments but otherwise maybe it wasn't so different. Even then they were probably telling the lie, "Don't worry. This won't hurt a bit."
Americans can make a marginal sitcom out of just about anything, even a talking horse, but that will never happen with a dentist. Enjoy those funny and romantic hi jinx in the wacky events with Doctor Dangerous at his Dental Palace of Pain ... sponsored by Coca Cola.
Oh, that reminds ... hipsters did something really genius yesterday; they invented Coke again. (From the Grapevine: What is Gazoz? Warning, it may make you thirsty)
Note: it probably won't make you thirsty but it may not rot your teeth either.
April 7 (UPI) -- Researchers have discovered ancient dental fillings in northern Italy, the world's oldest. The fillings were found inside a pair of 13,000-year-old front teeth. They were made of bitumen, a semi-solid form of petroleum.
Each of the two teeth feature large cavities. Marking on the walls of the holes suggest the cavities were hollowed out and enlarged by stone tools. While analyzing the holes, scientists found residues of bitumen. Researchers also found plant fibers and hair trapped in the asphalt.
- UPI
It looks real that there were cavemen practicing dentistry and that seems impossible but keep in mind they had the same intelligence as we. They just didn't have Saran Wrap or toaster ovens yet.
Besides, if you look at modern politics, there's no evidence people got any more intelligent than troglodytes anyway.
Yes, Lotho; that was for you. There's even room for political cheapshots in an article about ancient dentistry.
Using tar to fix teeth sounds outrageously horrible but it makes sense since they would be able to find the stuff without too much difficulty. They could see nothing lives in it, etc, etc. The stuff looks like an insightful choice.
Keep in mind these really weren't cavemen since they were mining and doing all kinds of remarkable things by the time of these ancient dentists.
The part the Rockhouse finds unusual is wondering how they managed to rot out their teeth in the first place. In America, we load everything with sugar so teeth have no chance but these ancients couldn't do that so how did they destroy their teeth.
For the interested student with this one, I would be wandering about trying to discover where there was the closest place to get sugar cane when you're starting from Italy. It's cool that the ancient Doctor Painless could fix teeth but what wrecked them in the first place.
Photo by Federico Bernardini/PLOS ONE
Their collection procedures were probably a little different for the situation when you fall behind on payments but otherwise maybe it wasn't so different. Even then they were probably telling the lie, "Don't worry. This won't hurt a bit."
Americans can make a marginal sitcom out of just about anything, even a talking horse, but that will never happen with a dentist. Enjoy those funny and romantic hi jinx in the wacky events with Doctor Dangerous at his Dental Palace of Pain ... sponsored by Coca Cola.
Oh, that reminds ... hipsters did something really genius yesterday; they invented Coke again. (From the Grapevine: What is Gazoz? Warning, it may make you thirsty)
Note: it probably won't make you thirsty but it may not rot your teeth either.
April 7 (UPI) -- Researchers have discovered ancient dental fillings in northern Italy, the world's oldest. The fillings were found inside a pair of 13,000-year-old front teeth. They were made of bitumen, a semi-solid form of petroleum.
Each of the two teeth feature large cavities. Marking on the walls of the holes suggest the cavities were hollowed out and enlarged by stone tools. While analyzing the holes, scientists found residues of bitumen. Researchers also found plant fibers and hair trapped in the asphalt.
- UPI
It looks real that there were cavemen practicing dentistry and that seems impossible but keep in mind they had the same intelligence as we. They just didn't have Saran Wrap or toaster ovens yet.
Besides, if you look at modern politics, there's no evidence people got any more intelligent than troglodytes anyway.
Yes, Lotho; that was for you. There's even room for political cheapshots in an article about ancient dentistry.
Using tar to fix teeth sounds outrageously horrible but it makes sense since they would be able to find the stuff without too much difficulty. They could see nothing lives in it, etc, etc. The stuff looks like an insightful choice.
Keep in mind these really weren't cavemen since they were mining and doing all kinds of remarkable things by the time of these ancient dentists.
The part the Rockhouse finds unusual is wondering how they managed to rot out their teeth in the first place. In America, we load everything with sugar so teeth have no chance but these ancients couldn't do that so how did they destroy their teeth.
For the interested student with this one, I would be wandering about trying to discover where there was the closest place to get sugar cane when you're starting from Italy. It's cool that the ancient Doctor Painless could fix teeth but what wrecked them in the first place.
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