USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In the 1700s and 1800s in Europe, ivory continued to be the primary denture base used. Thanks to innovations in France in the 1700s, porcelain started to be used in dental care. This early dental porcelain was quite fragile, though innovations in the 1800s resulted in a much sturdier form of the material.

Detailed explanation-2: -After the battle was done, scavengers robbed the dead soldiers of all commodities, including their teeth. Dentists would buy those teeth to create dentures. The dentures that were made with the teeth of the soldiers that died in the Battle of Waterloo came to be known as “Waterloo teeth.”

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1815, dentistry as we know it today was in its infancy-and the mouths of the rich were rotten. So they took teeth for their dentures from the bodies of tens of thousands of dead soldiers on the battlefield at Waterloo.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dentistry in the United States used to be practiced by the same people that would give you a haircut. They were referred to as barber-surgeons, and they often caused more harm than they did good. They were known for their crude practices as well as handing out bizarre advice to their patients.