Waterloo Teeth On 18 June 1815, Napoleon and Wellington fought at Waterloo, which ended twenty years of warfare in Europe. this monumental battle left some 50000 dead and wounded on the battlefield. The dead had been stripped of their effects and their teeth! These teeth were shipped all over the Europe, came to be known as “Waterloo Theeth”. These teeth were used in dentures as well as for transplants. John Greenwood (1760-1819) a New York dentist traveled all over Europe to purchase a full keg of natural teeth for his practice.
John Lennon – In the mid-1960s, John Lennon had a molar removed that he presented as a gift to his housekeeper, Dorothy. Dorothy’s daughter was a huge fan of the Beatles and he thought she might like to a keepsake. Her family held onto the tooth until 2011, when they auctioned it off to a Canadian dentist, Michael Zuk DDS for $31,000.
Mick Jagger, Beatles rival and Rolling Stones frontman, had a diamond stud inserted in one of his front teeth. This diamond replaced an emerald, which people kept mistaking for spinach stuck in the singer’s teeth. I guess you can’t always get what you want.
The most valuable tooth belonged to Sir Isaac Newton. In 1816, one of his teeth was sold in London for $3,633, or in today’s terms $35,700. The tooth was set in a ring!
A set of false teeth belonging to Winston Churchill’s has been sold for £15,200 at an auction in Norfolk. The upper dentures, one of several sets made for the wartime prime minister, were specially constructed to preserve his natural lisp and were so important he carried two pairs with him at all times.
Neanderthal teeth – For the past two decades Neanderthals have been interpreted in terms of one of two competing models for modern human origins. Supporters of the Recent African Origin model posit that Neanderthals were replaced by emigrating African modern humans and contributed little or nothing to the modern human gene pool
Copan – Mayans Teeth – The Mayan civilization not only attained a high degree of culture in the arts and sciences but in the field of medicine and dentistry as well. The incisors both upper and lower were decorated. Round fillings of iron pyrites and jade were inlaid on the labial surface of the teeth. The cavities drilled are perfectly round and the fillings fit so perfectly that no cementing medium can be seen. On the upper six anterior teeth are nine fillings, the most perfect work being done on the upper right central incisor.
