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Full lower denture, 1801-1860. This lower denture set is made of elephant ivory with human anteriors. It shows caries (decay) in both the teeth and plate. The age of these English dentures suggests that the human teeth used may have been amongst the thousands removed from corpses left on the battlefield of Waterloo. The flood of teeth onto the market after that battle was so huge that dentures made from such second-hand teeth acquired a new name: Waterloo teeth.
Location
Science Museum/London/Great Britain
Unique Identifier
ART494773
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
3504px × 2293px
Photo Credit
SSPL/Science Museum / Art Resource, NY
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19th century
Battle of Waterloo (Belle Alliance) (June 18, 1815)
CASUALTIES
DENTURE
English
FALSE
PROSTHETICS
TEETH