Title
The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry: The Golden Smile through the Ages
Files
Description
The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan culture, and their place within the framework of a general history of dentistry, with special emphasis on appliances, from Bronze Age Mesopotamia and Egypt to modern Europe and the Americas. Included are many of the ancient literary sources that refer to dentistry - or the lack thereof - in Greece and Rome, as well as the archaeological evidence of ancient dental health. The book challenges many past works in exposing modern scholars’ fallacies about ancient dentistry, while presenting the incontrovertible evidence of the Etruscans’ seemingly modern attitudes to cosmetic dentistry.
ISBN
9781138677913
Publication Date
3-1-2017
Publisher
CRC Press
City
Boca Raton, Florida
Disciplines
Archaeological Anthropology
Recommended Citation
Becker, Marshall Joseph and Turfa, Jean Macintosh, "The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry: The Golden Smile through the Ages" (2017). College of the Sciences & Mathematics Faculty Books. 15.
https://digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/ctsmfaculty_books/15