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SMNTY Classics: "Perfect" Teeth

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Braces

The etruscans were made out of a thing called cat gut, which apparently is not cat gut. So why are archaeologists calling it that? You know, i don't know. We have so many follow of qesti now already. But long storys short, wet were trying to get at is the fact that we have been wearing braces, types of gear in our mouths for a very, very, very long time. And fancy elizabethan ladies, they, they would modify their teeth. They actually put wax balls called puffers in place of missing teeth so that their cheeks wouldn't appear sunken.

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