Salt and charcoal were often r믭 across the teeth and then rinsed away.
However, the most common way of taking care of teeth involved taking a birch twig and fraying the end, making a primitive brush.
Dental powders were also used.
They were made from strange concoctions of burned eggshells ashes and animal hooves..
As long ago as 7000 BC, dentists existed in the Indus Valley to remove decaying teeth
Teeth give us the ability to eat as well as take it away! Due to the importance of teeth in our everyday lives, even the ancients needed them to be pain-free and healthy
Read on to learn the history of one of the oldest medical professions in the world
During the first fifty years, there was a marked increase in the number of practising dentists, partly due to the expansion of the middle class
Most practitioners learnt their trade through an apprenticeship but there was no control to prevent malpractice or incompetence and the standards of apprenticeship varied greatly
Dentistry is one of the oldest medical professions, dating back to 7000 B.C. with the Indus Valley Civilization. However, it wasn’t until 5000 B.C. that descriptions related to dentistry and tooth decay were available. At the time, a Sumerian text described tooth worms as causing dental decay, an idea that wasn’t proven false until the 1700s!
Dentistry is one of the earliest medical professions, going back to the Indus Valley Civilization circa 7000 B.C. However, accounts of dentistry and tooth decay were not known until 5000 B.C. when the first written descriptions of the disease appeared.