An Unexpectedly Exciting Visit to the Dentist

Fossil mammoth tooth from the Pleistocene of America. This image was originally posted to Flickr by James St. John at https://flickr.com/photos/47445767@N05/23202566565

One-million-year-old teeth were found in Siberia. They are from a mammoth who, presumably, didn’t floss daily or visit a dentist even once in its life. To suggest that any animal from the Pleistocene epoch had any sort of dental hygiene regiment is laughable. But, still, their teeth survived.

Whenever I go to a dentist’s office, I’m reminded of one particular visit from my teenage…