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The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry: The Golden Smile through the Ages (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)

By Jean MacIntosh Turfa , Marshall J. Becker

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2017
ISBN
9781138677913, 9781315559254, 1138677914
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
31 MB (32469806 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
416\445
Time added
2023-12-09 17:50:44

Description

The 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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