Sunday, October 08, 2006
Archaeologists found the smile OF THE XVIII century
In the honor of the world day of smile were for the first time advanced on the universal review the French dental prostheses, whose age comprises more than 200 years.
The artificial teeth XVIII- oho of the centuries, which bore archbishop narbonna, who passed away himself in 1806, were found in to its coffin during the archaelogical works in London.
Scientists carried out excavations on the cemetery of Saint -Pankras before beginning the construction work of the new terminal of train, which plies in the tunnel under the la -Manwem, reports British Times.
The china dental prostheses, which were discovered in the mouth of Artur Richard Dillon, they were advanced in the exposure of British museum.
They assume that it, probably, purchased prostheses with the gold springs in the main Parisian dentist of that time Nicolas de sheman.
Dillon, in 1763 become arkhiyepiskopomom Of narbonna, during the French revolution avoided guillotine and in 1791 ran into England.
The archaeologist of London museum Natasha Powers notes: "this unique artifact reflects one of the turning points in the history of stomatology, when new materials and methods of preparing the prostheses was adopted. This there was also the period of essential social and economic changes in the upper echelons of French society ".
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