Did Vikings Practice Dentistry?
<p>Vikings deserve their fame. They were relentless warriors whose raiding campaigns spread fear across Europe. They were innovative seafarers who populated Iceland and Greenland. They even <a href="http://muenchow.cms.udel.edu/classes/Arctic/Haine2008.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">landed on North America</a> five centuries before Christopher Columbus. One thing the Vikings were not famous for is dentistry.</p>
<p><a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0295282" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">A new study</a> by Carolina Bertilsson et al., published in the journal PLOS ONE, sheds light on whether we can add dentistry to the long list of accolades we usually grant to Vikings.</p>
<p>Bertilsson, an Associate Researcher in dentistry at the University of Gothenburg, sought to assess tooth wear and other dental pathologies in a known Viking population from Varnhem, Sweden. She used data from an excavated cemetery near the remains of an 11th century stone church. The church, modified from an earlier wooden version, is one of the oldest in Sweden.</p>
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