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9,000-Year-Old Dental Drill Is Found
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| Wed Apr 5, 1:05 PM ET
| SETH BORENSTEIN
Posted on 04/05/2006 1:33:23 PM PDT by The_Victor
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To: Tennessee_Bob; Cagey; MotleyGirl70
Do I detect a bit of rabid antidentism here? :-)
To: sangoo
"How do they know how old it is?"
The 10,000 year old magazines that were with it.
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posted on
04/05/2006 2:02:00 PM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
To: The_Victor
Proving prehistoric man's ingenuity and ability to withstand and inflict excruciating pain
Should read: "Proving dentists' ability to inflict excruciating pain...". The real "world's oldest profession".
To: YummiBox
Definitely not addictive.
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posted on
04/05/2006 2:03:52 PM PDT
by
weegee
("CBS NEWS? Is that show still on?" - freedomson)
To: Larry Lucido
Do I detect a bit of rabid antidentism here? :-) Yeah - I'm an occupationist, and proud of it!
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posted on
04/05/2006 2:04:35 PM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
To: blam
"could have" but I suspect it is like the brain surgery that was performed in ancient times. They see bone growth over the surgical area.
Not sure what happens with teeth.
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posted on
04/05/2006 2:05:38 PM PDT
by
weegee
("CBS NEWS? Is that show still on?" - freedomson)
To: aruanan; RadioAstronomer; longshadow; wimpycat; NittanyLion
Alright, any smart a$$ comments from the peanut gallery???
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posted on
04/05/2006 2:07:31 PM PDT
by
TomB
("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
To: SlowBoat407
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posted on
04/05/2006 2:14:37 PM PDT
by
italianquaker
(Democrats and media can't win elections at least they can win their phony polls.)
To: TASMANIANRED
"Ever heard of opium"
I was going to say the same thing. And now thanks to Afghanistan (very near Pakistan) there is lots more of it.
To: ConsentofGoverned
relax, opium was known much longer-just because they are ancient cultures don't assume they were stupid.Thank you. This just points out again that most people today think everything was created in their lifetime. There are other plants/drugs I'm sure these people could have got high on during this process also.
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posted on
04/05/2006 2:25:25 PM PDT
by
TXBubba
( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
To: weegee
The magazines found in the vicinity were 9,010 years old.
Sounds like my dentist's office.
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posted on
04/05/2006 2:28:32 PM PDT
by
P-40
(http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
To: TXBubba
"There are other plants/drugs I'm sure these people could have got high on during this process also."
Oh, opium was fine and dandy for the dentist, but what was the patient supposed to use?
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posted on
04/05/2006 2:31:04 PM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
To: Gordongekko909
"Just one question: is it safe?"Did the dentist also comment, "You should take better care of your teeths"?
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posted on
04/05/2006 2:35:49 PM PDT
by
albee
(The best thing you can do for the poor is.....not be one of them. - Eric Hoffer)
To: The_Victor
My parents, being good Christian Scientists, would not allow us, their spawn, to have any drugs, so Novacain was verbotin!
Our childhood dentist, Lew Smoler, (aka Loose Molar) would work on our teeth with his slow turning drill turned by rope bands, and the pain was unbelievable.
These old timers must have packed in some serious poppy plants and mushrooms to drill with a chunk of flint!
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posted on
04/05/2006 2:41:45 PM PDT
by
aShepard
To: The_Victor
I see light. I can't move. I see aliens. Grays.
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posted on
04/05/2006 3:21:37 PM PDT
by
manwiththehands
(I will remember in November.)
To: The_Victor
Is this one of the missing transitional fossils we keep looking for?
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posted on
04/05/2006 3:30:17 PM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
(outside a good dog, a book is your best friend. inside a dog it's too dark to read)
To: Izzy Dunne
Hmmm, not only a dentist but prophetic, as well.
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posted on
04/05/2006 3:36:47 PM PDT
by
RetSignman
(( HELP...I'm trapped between these curved things))
To: The_Victor
There are, actually, two such drills.
My dentist has the other one, and used it on me last week.
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posted on
04/05/2006 3:41:13 PM PDT
by
Pete'sWife
(Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
To: The_Victor
Well, I wouldn't characterize it as missing... merely as temporarily stored elsewhere until the statute of limitations has passed.
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posted on
04/05/2006 5:11:49 PM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: TomB
Alright, any smart a$$ comments from the peanut gallery??? Well, since you asked......
1) does this mean that dentistry has now replaced prostitution as the world's oldest prefession?
2) how do we know this was dentistry at all? It could just as well have been form of torture, or punishment, much as dentistry is in modern times....
;-)
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posted on
04/05/2006 5:14:43 PM PDT
by
longshadow
(FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
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