A 17th-Century Aristocrat Had a Crafty Secret For Keeping Her Teeth

Scientists have discovered the long-buried secret of a 17th-century French aristocrat 400 years after her death: She was using gold wire to keep her teeth from falling out.

The body of Anne d'Alegre, who died in 1619, was discovered during an archaeological excavation at the Chateau de Laval in northwestern France in 1988.At the time, the archaeologists noticed that she had a dental prosthetic, but they did not have advanced scanning tools to find out more.

A"Cone Beam" scan, which uses X-rays to build three-dimensional images, showed that gold wire had been used to hold together and tighten several of her teeth. But this ornate dental work only"made the situation worse", said Rozenn Colleter, an archaeologist at the French National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research and lead author of the study.The gold wires would have needed repeated tightening over the years, further destabilizing the neighboring teeth, the researchers said.

Ambroise Pare, a contemporary of D'Alegre's who was the doctor for several French kings and designed similar dental prosthetics, claimed that"if a patient is toothless, his speech becomes depraved", Colleter told AFP.

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