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500-year-old gold dental bridge is earliest known oral care of its kind in Scotland - and it likely held a fake tooth
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500-year-old gold dental bridge is earliest known oral care of its kind in Scotland - and it likely held a fake tooth
A man in Scotland had an early dental bridge made using a gold wire.Archaeologists discovered the 20-karat-gold dental wire in the lower jaw of a middle-aged man who lived around 500 years ago in Scotland.A man's lower jaw recovered from a medieval church in Aberdeen reveals the oldest known use of a dental bridge in Scotland, a new study finds. The gold wire, called a ligature, was installed around two teeth about 500 years ago to span the gap …
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