Worms and Pelicans: Dentistry’s Rotten History

Every Little Thing by Gimlet

Oct 25, 202126:51Education

This week, we brush off an ELT favorite on the gory history of tooth care. For most of human history, chomper maintenance has been bloody and brutal. So how'd we go from charlatans yanking teeth in a public square to the...

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