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INSIDE This Issue
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Happy Mother’s Day
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The Most Unique Customer Appreciation Ideas Ever Our Patients Say It Best
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Sautéed Zucchini and Squash With Feta Wisdom Teeth Risk in Older Patients
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A Dental-Crown History Lesson
The Royal Treatment A Brief History of Dental Crowns
Dental crowns are one of dentistry’s greatest weapons. Able to repair damaged, decaying, or missing teeth, crowns are a great resource in both cosmetic and health-related dentistry cases, and humans have been using crowns longer than any other dental trick. The first people to wear gold on their teeth lived on Luzon, an island in the Philippines. Scholars found 4,000-year-old skeletons with golden caps and golden teeth. Later documents from Spanish invaders showed that the people of these cultures practiced gold pegging, deliberate teeth filling, and blackening of their teeth well into the 1500s. However, on Luzon, the inspiration behind these first gold crowns is believed to have been born out of a cosmetic drive rather than medical necessity. A paper from the University of the Philippines Baguio suggests, “The motivations behind dental modifications were complex and included concepts of beautification, achieving personhood, and affirming group identity.” Golden teeth wouldn’t appear in Europe until 700 B.C. The Etruscans used golden dental crowns as a status symbol and to show off their wealth, but the trend died off, and we wouldn’t see crowns make a comeback until after the Middle Ages. By 1530, dentistry was beginning to be seen as a medical science rather than a side hustle for barbers
or blacksmiths, and the first book on dentistry was published in Germany. Called the Artney Buchlein or “The Little Medicinal Book for All Kinds of Diseases and Infirmities of the Teeth,” and it included information about dental crowns, which were made of human or animal teeth at the time. If secondhand teeth or gold aren’t your preferred material crowns, then you have Charles H. Land to thank. In the late 1800s, Land patented the “jacket” crown, which was made of porcelain and was the first modern dental crown as we know them today. Land’s crown was efficient for the time, though it suffered from microcracking and didn’t last long. A better solution wouldn’t arrive until the 1960s, when crowns of porcelain fused to metal hit the scene. Today, crowns are a staple of modern dentistry. As versatile a solution as the materials available for a crown, countless people are able to confidently show off their smiles thanks to their crowns.
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