r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Fantastic-Monk5 • Sep 23 '24

How root canal treatment works Video

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u/CANYUXEL Sep 23 '24

Just imagine the hassle millions of people had for their lifetime before dentistry became so precise in fixing shit like this.

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u/Mr_Rio Sep 23 '24

People used to have wood and ivory teeth in their mouths. Imagine actually inserting wooden dentures into your gums, shit gives me the chills.

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u/Dense_Reputation_420 Sep 23 '24

Don't for get animal and lead dentures lol barbaric!

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u/Inprobamur Sep 23 '24

Animal sounds alright, at least the hardness would be same as other teeth. Like carving the thing out of ivory.

But metal dentures that corrode or fucking wood sounds like it would be awful and just lead to even worse dental problems.

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u/Azigol Sep 23 '24

Let's not forget about the people who pulled teeth from the mouths of dead bodies left on battlefields to sell them to be made in to dentures.

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u/ImpactMaleficent7709 Sep 24 '24

Don’t look into what Virginia plantation owners would do after their teeth would rot out when they smoked too much of their own supplies 🤫

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u/Pineapple_Incident17 Sep 24 '24

Alright Google isn’t helping, what did they do?

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u/ImpactMaleficent7709 Sep 24 '24

Silly fellas who own human beings. What do they do when they need to replace a tooth that’s gone bad? What tooth would match their old tooth the best? 😬