LIVING LIKE AN ANCIENT DENTISTRY AND TOOTH DECAY IN ROME
The Romans took oral hygiene and bad breath very seriously – halitosis was as crippling a social and romantic disability in ancient Rome as it is today. Yet, X-rays of their skulls show teeth and gums in remarkably good condition. (Severe gum disease affects the underlying bone, and therefore indelibly marks the skeletal evidence.) In fact, it appears that Romans had an incidence of gum disease that was five times lower than that of
