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Teeth

Karl Martin's toothbrush holder.

This 4,000-Year-Old Pot Spent Years as a Toothbrush Holder

It was purely acci-dental.

Matthew Taub November 30, 2018

We now know what the missing teeth would have looked like at the front of this jaw.

We Always Thought This Dinosaur Was a Vegetarian, Then We Found Its Front Teeth

A sharp surprise from Montana's Hell Creek.

Matthew Taub October 26, 2018

The plaque commemorating the creation of the American Board of Orthodontics.

Estes Park, Colorado

Birthplace of the American Board of Orthodontics

The start of the group that straightened the teeth of a nation.

Dental plaque in these teeth provide evidence that Mediterranean ancestors ate fish and plants.

Found: Tooth Gunk That Shows Mesolithic Mediterraneans Ate Fish and Plants

Questionable dental hygiene in a man from the 8th millennium B.C. unveils early omnivore tendencies.

Christina Ayele Djossa June 6, 2018

Spies may have used fake teeth, but did any of them have cyanide in them?

The Cyanide Tooth Is a Cold War Fairy-Tale

The popular spy movie trope would have been a rather risky thing to carry around in your mouth.

Eric Grundhauser April 11, 2018

A lower denture from the 1800s made of human teeth and hippopotamus bone.

When Dentures Used Real Human Teeth

"Waterloo teeth" represent a more ghoulish time in the history of dentistry.

Eric Grundhauser March 15, 2018

A close-up of lamprey meat.

Lamprey

A prehistoric sea monster sucks blood, then gets cooked in its own.

Lean back and relax in this chair from the late 19th century.

London, England

British Dental Museum

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

The teeth may look small, but together they form a strong beak.

Pufferfish and Human Teeth Come From the Same Genetic Code

The beaked ocean-dwellers might someday help us restore lost teeth.

Kelsey Kennedy May 17, 2017

Yikes!

Found: A 13,000-Year-Old Dental Filling Made of Bitumen

Sarah Laskow April 11, 2017

The dentures were found in the tomb of a powerful family.

Found: Centuries-Old Dentures Made From Real Teeth

They were worn by someone very rich.

Sarah Laskow November 22, 2016

The Toothbrush That Grows On Trees

Dan Nosowitz December 23, 2015

Permanently Closed

Elkhart, Indiana

The Elkhart Tooth Brick

A concrete block embedded with thousands of pulled teeth was created by a local dentist to memorialize his dog.

Kandy, Sri Lanka

Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.