Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Filling In



Above, you see an image of "cutting edge" dental work, accomplished without anaesthetic or even dental insurance! This is a 7-9,000 year old human tooth that shows signs of drilling with sharpened points of flint. In a village called Mehrhgarh, in present-day Pakistan, ancient villagers underwent these dental procedures in teeth that, half the time, had no apparent signs of decay (whereas some teeth did have cavities). It is unknown whether any sort of filling was used to protect sensitive areas. The drilling was not thought to be for decorative purposes, since none of the holes were located in visible locations at the front of the mouth.

Could it be....PULP fiction?

4 comments:

KEvron said...

the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth!

KEvron

eyedoc333 said...

You know the DRILL...

Heather Kirkwood said...

oohhhhh.....that makes me hurt just thinking about it! Cringe!

5th Estate said...

MEHRH-GARRRH!

I'm pretty sure that's what the patient was saying when his teeth were being worked-over and so that's how the village got its name!