Transplant surgery: an eye-opening history
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The Science Behind Tooth Transplants
Tooth transplants have scientific origins. They have cultural origins, sient and the ther much intermingled. The concept of a machine body is part of the scientific dimension of transplanting teeth. John hunter's greatest contribution to the science behind the tooth transplant was to think that life was a particle inside the blood. He experimented on cockrels - he took a spur from one and transplanted it into a hen's comb.
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