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.
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.
She also had an artificial tooth made of ivory from an elephant—not hippopotamus, which was popular at the time. 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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