Sherrie Jones

Retired ICU Nurse. Mother. Political junkie. History junkie (British Roman through Tudor). #Fully vaccinated 🌊.

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[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

More than a thousand years ago, Maya dental specialists were creating decorative tooth inlays with a level of precision that still impresses researchers today.

They carefully drilled small cavities into living teeth and fitted pieces of jade, turquoise, pyrite, and other minerals into the openings.

The work was not simply a rough attempt to push stones into enamel.

The holes were shaped with care, and the inlays were secured using durable cements made from mixtures that included plant resins, mineral materials, and other organic compounds.

Modern chemical analysis has found ingredients with antibacterial, antifungal, or anti-inflammatory properties in some of these ancient adhesives.

That may have helped protect the tooth and surrounding tissue while keeping the decoration in place.

The strongest evidence of their skill is that some inlays have remained attached for centuries.

Researchers believe the practice was usually decorative or connected to identity and status rather than a treatment for damaged teeth. It also appears across different levels of Maya society, suggesting that dental modification was not reserved only for rulers.

Imagine the knowledge required.

The specialist needed to drill without breaking the tooth or reaching the sensitive pulp. The stone had to fit the cavity. The adhesive had to hold in a wet mouth exposed to pressure, food, and bacteria every day.

This was accomplished without electric tools, modern anesthetics, or synthetic dental cement.

Ancient dentistry is often described as primitive because it lacked modern equipment.

The Maya evidence tells a more complicated story. Their methods combined craftsmanship, botanical knowledge, mineral science, and an understanding of the human tooth.

What looked like jewelry was also an extraordinary technical achievement, small enough to fit inside a smile and strong enough to survive for a millennium.

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@ScarboroughNow White Christians in the US went on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on about the Antichrist for years.

The closest thing to the Biblical description showed up and the Republicans voted for him as POTUS.

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@neiltyson The stock market is not the economy.

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BREAKING: I just sent a letter to @BrendanCarrFCC calling for a full and immediate investigation into the Bad Bunny Halftime Show.

In America, our laws are not suggestions, and no matter what foreign language you speak, you must comply.
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We are never letting this go.

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[Sherrie Jones @SherrieJones14]

@BeauTFC COVID-19 is demographically remaking the entire globe. God (or whoever) hath spoken.

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@BeauTFC I’m just doing a solar powered she-shed office (with a bed) in my backyard as my next project.

Screw tent.

Bet I get this in pretty low cost. We will see.

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@BeauTFC

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@BeausWife2 I’m a retired ICU nurse planning my low maintenance container garden in the backyard

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@StephenKing I think Maureen Dowd bitches about damn near everything.

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@BeausWife2 I’m DONE after 35+ years. RETIRED! Let the CPR, ACLS lapse, CCRN and CMS lapse.

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@Vancbromycin My daughter’s coworker anti vaccination father just died of delta COVID in the ICU. The young lady left shift early to go to her father’s bedside. The job fired her.

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@ByronNoe6 It was no issue. Had a little fever for 24 hours that’s all