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Having everything pulled out and replaced by dentures before it became a problem was a common coming of age present up until the 1930s. The dentures were made

Having everything pulled out and replaced by dentures before it became a problem was a common coming of age present up until the 1930s. The dentures were made of real teeth pulled from corpses. https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/agyegl/how_true_is_this_claim_about_victorian_england/ https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/agyegl/how_true_is...

anticensor 3y ago
It must have been hard to find healthy teeth from the corpses.
- rsynnott 3y ago
  Probably not _that_ hard; a lot of people were dying very early back then.
- ginko 3y ago
  https://bda.org/museum/collections/teeth-and-dentures/waterloo-teeth https://bda.org/museum/collections/teeth-and-dentures/waterl...
- hulitu 3y ago
  The war was not invented yesterday.
pavlov 3y ago
I’ve always wondered about this. If you’re going to pull out all the teeth from a 15-year-old, presumably they’re mostly reasonably healthy. Why not make the denture out of the person’s original teeth?
- rowanG077 3y ago
  Pulling out teeth. Especially healthy, well fixated ones. Is not easy. I imagine they damaged most of them beyond repair.
  - pavlov 3y ago
    Oh, that makes sense. I guess I imagined the teeth coming out whole, cartoon-style. I suppose the teeth from a not-fresh corpse are nice and loose and easy to collect.
hulitu 3y ago
> Having everything pulled out and replaced by dentures before it became a problem was a common coming of age present up until the 1930s. My former dentist would like to politely dissagree.