Ancient Egyptian dental work - photo

Ancient Egyptian dental work model at the National Museum of Dentistry in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...092#post187760
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...064#post207348
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...311#post192348
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...619#post189847
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...580#post174175

Ouch. That hurts...

I'm impressed they had wire of that quality.

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Originally Posted by nova_robotics

I'm impressed they had wire of that quality.

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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.

And excellent low speed drill bits...

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Originally Posted by desbromilow

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.

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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.

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.