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13 - Colonial Teeth

The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds

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Dentures and Dentures

After the battle of Waterloo, dudes swarmed over the dead and yanked out all their teeth. Which were then brought to Dennis and turned into dentures for decades after Waterloo. After a while they realized that the socket thing wasn't working just cramming into a socket. They started using like ivory or bone as a denture. So you'd pop it in the denture instead of in the socket. Okay so that's not bad right? I really sense that we're getting warmer. It doesn't end horrible. But using teeth which were donated went on for a long time. Or not donated.

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