Many of us will have had a tooth pulled in the dentist chair, either under local or general anesthetic, and even with modern medicine, it’s not a pleasant experience. So spare a thought for the people who, for millennia, voluntarily had good, healthy front teeth hammered or pulled out – a practice that continued from 4800 BP to the early 1900s. And it was primarily all in the name of beauty.
Tags: Australian National University, Taiwan, Teeth, Archeology, Fossils, Evolution
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