Did ancients ever have toothaches?

Garry Denke · Post by **Garry Denke** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:05 pm

What was the lifespan of an ancient?

Did the ancients prefer baby teeth?

Were ancient open mouths round?

Phase III a prayer for new teeth?

Altar Stone speaking one tongue?

G-D

daedalus 2.0 · Post by **daedalus 2.0** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:28 pm

What the hey!?!?!?!?!!?

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!

Cathar1950 · Post by **Cathar1950** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:51 am

My son was telling me about something he read where wisdom teeth are vanishing.
Maybe they are connected to wisdom.

I guess I should jump in the shower and get doing something.

The Duke of Vandals · Post by **The Duke of Vandals** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:50 pm

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

McCulloch · Post by **McCulloch** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 3:17 pm

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."

Fallibleone · Post by **Fallibleone** » Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:33 am

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!

JitterBob · Post by **JitterBob** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:22 am

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

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