From ancient times, people have experienced such thing as toothache and tooth decay. Tooth extraction is also a solution to heal from the pain in the tooth. Talking about the teeth, in fact, dentures were first known in the year 700 BC. At that time, the technology is still not too sophisticated, so the dentures at the time was made from elephant ivory, whalebone, and hippopotamus bone, and glue technique using gold wire, so do not be rusty.
In medieval times, dentures made of silver, gold, and onyx. Even, there are also people who use real teeth which is the body of former war victims or the poor who sell their teeth. In the 18th century, a French dentist named Dubois de Chement and Duchateau, using porcelain material as raw material for dentures. Then, dentures enhanced by a dentist Italian nationality, named Giusseppangelo Fonzi who introduced porcelain dentures on metal plates.
In 1839, dentures made of vulcine which is a hard rubber type material made by Nelson Goodyear. Nelson is the brother of Charles Goodyear, a businessman who later famous for his Goodyear tire plant. Until then in early 1940, acrylic found and become the subject of dentures and is still used today.
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