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While most books on dentistry describe the clinical and medical procedures involved, this book expands the field to examine the role of dentistry and teeth in everything from biology to biography. This book offers facts and figures regarding famous historical figures, such as John Hunter, Dr Crippen, Doc Holliday, and Paul Revere, exploring how their connections to dentistry shaped them, as well as the story of the two young dentists who discovered the principles of general anaesthesia. Other chapters focus on the amazing ranges of teeth in animals, from the teeth in piranhas to the tusks and ivory of elephants and narwhals, looking at their biological and cultural significance. The importance of teeth in understanding the evolution of humans and in revolutionizing the study of archaeology is also evaluated. This book is appropriate for dentists, medical and dentistry students, and non-specialists to introduce the myriad interesting aspects relating to teeth.

Please note that print volumes do not include full colour.

  • Includes well-illustrated and thoroughly explained examples and anecdotes
  • Presents both popular and little-known instances of teeths importance in history
  • Written in an engaging tone appropriate for academics and the wider public

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Nothing but the Tooth
A Dental Odyssey

Barry K.B. Berkovitz

Emeritus Reader in Anatomy, School of Biomedical Sciences, Kings College London, London, UK

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Copyright

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First edition 2013

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Dedication To my namesake Kenneth Bradbury killed in the defence of Teruel - photo 3

Dedication

To my namesake Kenneth Bradbury killed in the defence of Teruel, Spain in 1938, during the Spanish Civil War, aged 17.

Barry Kenneth Bradbury Berkovitz

Acknowledgements

I am extremely grateful to the following for their help and constructive criticism:

Dr S.R. Berkovitz () and my wife, Sylvia, for her assistance throughout.

My special thanks to Mr M. Simon for his invaluable help with all the images and illustrations.

Barry K.B. Berkovitz

Preface

I retired in 2005 after spending over 40 years teaching and researching the structure and function of teeth. Over that time, I have amassed a collection of information that I thought might be of interest to a wider audience. I imagined that at some stage someone surely would ask me to give a talk on the subject. Having time on my hands, I decided to go ahead and prepare a non-clinical, illustrated, 45-min talk demonstrating how enjoyable the subject could be. The first thing I did was to write out a list of topics. However, when I looked at it, I realised that I was ignorant of much of the finer detail of the subject matter and would have to spend time mugging it up. Four years later, I finally finished preparing my talk, but as yet I have not been invited to deliver it. Therefore, I decided to publish it in the form of this book. If each reader finds at least one topic of interest, I will feel that my efforts have not been in vain.

Barry K.B. Berkovitz

London, June 2012

About the Author

Dr Barry K.B. Berkovitz is an internationally recognised teacher, examiner and research worker in the field of dentistry, with over 40 years experience. This is his 14th book and he has written well over 120 major scientific articles. He qualified at the Royal Dental Hospital, London, and undertook postgraduate research at Royal Holloway College. He subsequently taught at the University of Bristol and Kings College London. He is the Honorary Curator of the Odontological Collection at the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and an Honorary Research Associate in the History of Dentistry Unit at the Dental Institute, Kings College London.

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The Jaws of the Piranha
Natural History of the Piranha

The name piranha conjures up an image of a steaming Amazon River in which a hapless animal straying into it suddenly disappears underwater in a broiling mass of blood. A few minutes later, all is calm the only trace remaining of the animal is a skeleton clinically stripped of its flesh. This was the type of description given by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in his 1914 book Through the Brazilian Wilderness. He stated They will snap the finger off a hand incautiously trailed in the waterThey are the fish that eats men when it can get the chanceBlood in the water excites them to madness. However, this spectacle could have been purposely orchestrated for him with a shoal of piranhas held in the river without food for some time. This episode convinced Roosevelt that piranhas are the most ferocious fish in the world.

The fearsome reputation of the piranha is matched today only by that of the great white shark, all the more impressive given the piranhas diminutive size (usually between 15 and 25 cm in length; ) compared to several metres of shark. Unlike the shark, piranhas usually attack prey larger than themselves.

Figure 11 A 19-cm long piranha showing the general body features Note the - photo 4

Figure 1.1 A 19-cm long piranha showing the general body features. Note the deep-bodied outline, the forward-jutting lower jaw and the wide gape of the jaws.

The piranhas aggressive image has proved highly marketable, giving its name to, among other things, a thirst-slaying, fizzy drink with its bone-crushing citrus (); a U.S. womens ice hockey team, the Pittsburgh Piranhas; and two well-known rock bands.

Figure 12 A can containing a fizzy drink called Piranha with the logo - photo 5

Figure 1.2 A can containing a fizzy drink called Piranha with the logo bone-crushing citrus.

Piranhas have also inspired Hollywood. In the 1978 cult horror film Piranha, a shoal of piranhas, genetically engineered by the military to be oversized, fast-breeding and flesh-crazy, is accidentally released into a river leading to a holiday resort, with predictably gory results. In the 2010, 3-D film

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