WHEN dentists tell you that you should look after your teeth, perhaps the advice should be broadened to include you keep track of them too - workers excavating an underground train station in Melbourne have recently uncovered a gruesome stockpile of human teeth - most of them riddled with enormous cavities.
Historians have linked the curious choppers to a dentist who worked in the area during the early 20th century, however despite curiosity about why he was storing so many discarded teeth, it remains a mystery.
Perhaps we will just have to grin and bear never finding the truth?
STAYING with the theme of bizarre dental practices, and it's hard to go past a woman who pretended to be a qualified dentist for seven years before finally being arrested.
Krista Szewczyk from Atlanta in the United States donned a white coat and scraped, drilled, and pulled teeth for years, in addition to applying braces and prescribing dangerous drugs before finally being exposed as a fake.
One of her patients was forced to have emergency surgery on a large and painful ulcer that had developed on his neck following a visit to her practice - as if seeing the dentist wasn't scary enough!
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