The history of dentistry and the white-toothed smile
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2014 · Education
Colin Jones describes the emergence of porcelain dentures, which reflected and promoted the emergence of the white-toothed smile in late eighteenth-century France. He describes how the invention sometimes backfired. It was only in the twentieth century that dentistry for the sake of the smile came to predominate. http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198715818.do
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