I’ve been writing here about oral care throughout the ages for some time now and today I want to talk about how people did it 200 years ago. During the late 1700s and the early 1800s, not a lot had changed since medieval ages, and people still cleaned their teeth with ashes of burnt spices […]
We like to think of the Dark Ages as a time of, well, darkness. But this a very misleading name for medieval times, and things weren’t for sure as dark as they seem from our XXIth century perspective. Of course, if you ask me whether we take better care of our teeth now, you can […]
Today my wife and I visited the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte. For those of you who don’t know the incredible emperor who changed the History was born here in Ajaccio, in Corsica. Corsica is a beautiful island of raw nature and a culture of its own. The Corse, despite being French citizens don’t consider themselves […]
We all love to hear stories about the people who came before us. It’s human nature: we want to know where we come from. And science can tell us a lot about our ancestors’ live and death. Human remains found in archaeological sites, like bones, soft tissue or teeth can describe, in great detail, how […]
