Description
Book SynopsisThis achingly fascinating book follows the evolution of dentistry throughout the world from the Bronze Age to the present day, featuring captivating, grim illustrations of the tools and techniques of dentistry through the ages. It charts the changing social attitudes toward the purpose and practice of dentistry from the crude and painful endeavors of early civilizations to the fluoridated water, cosmetic surgery, and heightened expectations of today.The Smile StealersThe Smile Stealers
Trade Review'Magnificent … All human life is here – the pain, the suffering and the happiness summed up in the ecstasy of a toothsome smile' - Tatler
'I love the thought of
The Smile Stealers being casually left in dentists’ waiting rooms … It is gory, beautiful, probing' - The Times
'Excellent' - Will Self, Guardian
'Thoroughly compelling' - Times Literary Supplement
Table of ContentsIntroduction: You Know the Drill • 1. The Natural and Ancient History of the Teeth • 2. Pulling Teeth in Medieval Europe • 3. Fauchard and The Dentistes • 4. Enlightened Extractions • 5. ‘A New Era in Tooth-Pulling!’ • 6. The Skull Beneath the Skin • 7. The Smile of Success
