[Sca-cooks] State of Teeth in Middle Ages

Johnna Holloway johnnae at mac.com
Fri Jan 28 16:06:56 PST 2011


Odd. The original report on their website
http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/archsci/depart/resgrp/towton/
fails to mention teeth or dental at all.

Johnnae

On Jan 28, 2011, at 3:30 PM, Elise Fleming wrote:

> Greetings!  I want to echo the comments that dental health during  
> the Middle Ages was better than we thought.  I'm not sure about  
> specific articles on dental health, but the most recent mention was  
> in an article cited by SCAtoday.  You can find it at http://www.economist.com/node/17722650 
>  .  It's an article about the Battle of Towton and the violence of  
> that battle.  The teeth part is in the section called "Who Are You  
> Calling Short?"
>
> Alys K.



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