Today I’m wrapping up my series on 18th century hygiene with a look at dental care. When you’re researching a particular period, as we historical fiction writers do, you run across a lot of fascinating information about how people lived and took care of themselves back in the day. Though I doubt any specifics related to this subject will ever show up in my books, it does make a good, and in some instances hair-raising, topic for a blog post. So let’s delve into what was going on with teeth…
