The Other Day I was wondering what kind of Dental care did the Ancient Romans had. I found this website: http://doctormuramoto.com/home.jsp?c=Kid's+Stuff&wiz=0&page=Kid's+Stuff which included some information on the Roman Dental care. This will be placed below.
By 300 B.C. folks in Etruria (a part of what is now Italy) were making false teeth from hippo and whale bone and setting them into lovely gold settings that fit right into a toothless mouth. The Etruscans were the best dentists in the ancient world. When a person died, whatever decent, real teeth they had were extracted from their corpsesand fashioned into beautiful Etruscan dentures - a fun word for false teeth. Unfortunately, the dental skills of the Etruscans vanished along with their civilization .
First they would take a metal file and roughen up the surface of the tooth. They then brushed the tooth with a solution of corrosive nitric acid. Sure, the teeth were white for a while, but the acid ate away the enamel. When the protective enamel was gone, a mouthful of cavities soon followed. And there you were - toothless as a month old baby.
By the year 100 A.D. in ancient Rome, people were sticking little metal hunks of wrought iron that had been beaten into fang-like shapes into their jawbones to replace missing teeth. And you thought braces made you look like a metal mouth!
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