Incredible dental work found on a 4,000-year-old mummy. The two central teeth are donor teeth: this is the first bridge in history: not having some teeth was considered as unsightly in ancient times as it is today. And that is why the Egyptians devised a complicated method of installing bridges using gold threads intertwined between the teeth to keep the bridge in line….


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