An iron tooth implant fitted 2,300 years ago could be Earliest False Tooth Ever found in Western Europe. The dental implant (shown in the image second from the right) was discovered in the timber burial chamber of an Iron Age woman who died in her twenties in Le Chene, northern France. Archaeologists have identified what could be remains of the earliest false tooth found in Western Europe. The dental implant comes from the richly-furnished timber burial chamber of an Iron Age woman that was excavated in Le Chene, northern France.
The woman, who was between 20 and 30 years old when she died, had an iron pin in place of an upper incisor tooth. It is possible the pin once held a false tooth made from either wood or bone, which could have rotted away. The grave was one of four adult female burials in an enclosure dating to the third century BC that were discovered during the…
