
CLASSIC: When Dentist Sold Dentures Made with Corpse Teeth
Ridiculous History
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Straight Seahorse Teeth
The 1832 Anatomy Act clamps down on the trade and dead human beings. The first porcelain dentures in way back in 1774 were terrible. By the 1830s, there were some significant improvements made to those crappier porcelain teeth. There was something called tube teeth that was developed by a jeweler named Claudius Ash. And this is where we get to a part of it that really bothers me because they're like raw wire inside your mouth.
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