| Preventive
dentistry has improved a lot in 2000 years. Back then,
some people believed they could prevent toothaches
by washing their teeth with tortoise blood. Others
wore the bones picked out of wolf excrement as a talisman
against tooth pain. The ancient Egyptians believed
applying a freshly killed mouse would cure an aching
tooth. (We will never put off flossing again!) |
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