Stories
- Article
Is your job bad for your teeth?
Some surprising occupations pose hidden risks to dental health. Could your ivories be in particular peril?
- Interview
Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing
James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.
- Book extract
You know the drill
Richard Barnett opens wide the true meaning of a healthy mouth.
- Book extract
The castration effect
Discover how testosterone – or the lack of it – affects the male body, from eunuch slaves to castrato singers, and on to hormone reduction in modern prostate cancer treatment.
Catalogue
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On the construction and application of forceps for extracting teeth / by John Tomes.
Tomes, John, 1815-1895.Date: 1843
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The significance of the natural form and arrangement of the dental arches of man : with a consideration of the changes which occur as a result of their artificial derangement by filing or by the extraction of teeth / by Isaac B. Davenport.
Davenport, Isaac Burnet.Date: [1887]- Archives and manuscripts
Streptolysin - O (Dried)
Date: 1958-1959Reference: WF/M/PL/298Part of: Wellcome Foundation Ltd
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Memoire sur les diverses especes de deviations dont est susceptible la derniere molaire, ou dent de sagesse de la machoire inferieure, et sur les accidens qui peuvent accompagner sa sortie / par Alp. Toirac.
Date: 1829
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A scientist using a steam machine with pulley to extract a tooth from a man. Pen drawing by C.E.H., 1894.
Date: 1894Reference: 16761i