When a now anonymous teenager sold her tooth for transplant, she couldn’t have predicted that she’d end up at the heart of a troubling story about 18th-century beauty ideals.

The costume of Great Britain / Designed, engraved, and written by W.H. Pyne.

Transplanting of teeth.

The girl with no name

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The girl with no name