Question

Who would a person see if he needed to get a tooth pulled during the Middle Ages?

A.
the doctor

B.
the barber

C.
the blacksmith

D.
the armorer

Answer 1

What do you think my friend?

Answer 2

um maybe a blacksmith

Answer 3

I could eliminate the doctor and the blacksmith

Answer 4

i dont know

Answer 5

Would the barber or the armorer have the required tools to pull or "cut" out a tooth?

Answer 6

The fact that dental hygiene was relatively good compared with later periods would have been a benefit to people at the time, given that dental surgery was pretty bad. Most treatment consisted of simply removing the tooth, which tended to be done by the local barber and with no anaesthetic other than perhaps getting drunk beforehand. More skilled surgeons had treatments for mouth cancer, involving the cutting out of affected tissue and then cauterisation. We also have evidence of dentures made from cow bone or human teeth, though only for the very rich. On the whole, though, medieval dental hygiene was based on the same concerns as today—white teeth and fresh breath—and medieval people developed some reasonably effective ways of maintaining both. http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2015/04/10/dental_hygiene_did_people_in_the_middle_ages_have_bad_teeth.html

Answer 7

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Answer 8

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