Show Sg 3 3 3 g fr Ph Phoenician Dental Art P Preserved se ved in in- inthe i the e Louvre Louve The first false teeth as as far as ns known today today- were worn by a 0 woman of at SIdon In rho Phoenicia Phoenicia- about B Q OL according to Dr Roy Hoy L L. MoodIe of ot Santa Santu Monica Calif The Phoenician Phoenician womans woman's Jaw v with the false raise teeth Is III Isnow Isnow now preserved In t the he Louvre In Paris The two wo right Incisors are represented by teeth held In place and bound to each each other by gold wire The wire has hns been drawn through careful perforations In the artificial teeth Although Although- the l Egyptians plo- plo nee red In treatment 0 ol of many diseased conditions of at the body this sort ot 01 dental denial replacement apparently was never neer devised by Egyptian physicians Thousands ot of years years of or life fife In In Egypt gyp hove have been examined but bUI no clear evidence of 01 such repair work worle hase cr been found round It appears that thai I ha I we wc not only owe our alphabet nn and numerous geographic discoveries to the he restless Inquiring minds of at the Phoenicians Doctor Moodie Mondle points out hut but also we are ore In la deb ted to them for tor this entrance Info In to fo prosthetics which Is n a particularly valuable Geld feld of |