Did ancients ever have toothaches?

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Did ancients ever have toothaches?

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Did ancients ever have toothaches?

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What was the lifespan of an ancient?

Did the ancients prefer baby teeth?

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Were ancient open mouths round?

Phase III a prayer for new teeth?
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Altar Stone speaking one tongue?

G-D

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What the hey!?!?!?!?!!? :shock: :roll: :-k #-o :confused2: :confused2: :confused2: :confused2: :confused2: :confused2: :confused2:


Seriously, though, this is an excellent axample of what the human animal does very well: Pattern Recognition.

This clever fellow discovered that the plan of Stonehenge looks much like the modern Dentist chart of our teeth.


It is worthy of being a feature article in the Onion!

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My son was telling me about something he read where wisdom teeth are vanishing.
Maybe they are connected to wisdom. :confused2:
I guess I should jump in the shower and get doing something.

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Garry Denke wrote:Did ancients ever have toothaches?
Certainly. In fact, I've seen pictures of skulls of ancient people who died from a tooth abscess that went up towards the brain. Don't believe me? It still happens today:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00827.html

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The Duke of Vandals wrote:
Garry Denke wrote:Did ancients ever have toothaches?
Certainly. In fact, I've seen pictures of skulls of ancient people who died from a tooth abscess that went up towards the brain.
As a well noted right leaning economist noted, "if they would rather die, than they had better do so, and reduce the surplus population."
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McCulloch wrote:
The Duke of Vandals wrote:
Garry Denke wrote:Did ancients ever have toothaches?
Certainly. In fact, I've seen pictures of skulls of ancient people who died from a tooth abscess that went up towards the brain.
As a well noted right leaning economist noted, "if they would rather die, than they had better do so, and reduce the surplus population."
Humbug! ;)
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Of course...

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Why wouldn't thet have toothaches. I have em all the time and not even 20....

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