Ancient Egyptian dental work - photo

[desbromilow]

I'm impressed they had wire of that quality.

probably gold wire, or gold alloy - very easy to make wires of reasonable quality, and relatively non-corroding. The wires (like the teeth) would have suffered more from the diet, than the quality of materials.

my question is how they under cut the jaw - that would have been the effects of the abscess eating into the bone, or it was purposely done to give room under the inserted teeth - either way it would not have been a pleasant experience.

[nova_robotics]

my question is how they under cut the jaw - that would have been the effects of the abscess eating into the bone, or it was purposely done to give room under the inserted teeth - either way it would not have been a pleasant experience.

Remove a tooth and leave it for a few years and your jaw will undercut itself. It's actually a really big problem in dentistry because if someone loses a tooth you gotta get on that and repair it. If someone loses a tooth and waits a few years before repairing it there will be no jaw left to install an implant in.

[TrickieDickie]

The jaw bone will naturally recede when a tooth is lost, nothing to support. Many x-rays of patients with false teeth show the drastic loss of bone support when natural teeth are gone.