Old dentists’ office walls are full of thousands of “buried teeth”

voidrabbits:

agentofawesome:

oldmanyellsatcloud:

mostlysignssomeportents:

For at least the third time, construction workers in Georgia have opened
up the walls of a former dentist’s office only to discover thousands of
teeth in the wall cavity.

The latest discovery was made at Valdosta, Georgia’s TB Converse
Building, built in 1900, in a dental office occupied by Dr Clarence
Whittington and then Dr Lester G Youmans, from 1900 until the 1930s.

Previous troves of entombed teeth have been discovered in old dentists’ offices n Greensboro and Carrolton.

https://boingboing.net/2018/10/27/poor-r-value.html

>for at least the t h i r d t i m e

apparently the cool thing to do post-war was utilize the empty space between studs as a fucking sharps container because that could never cause a problem in the future

thanks boomers

ok but imagine opening a wall and all those teeth falling out,,,

I once saw a mid-century kids’ book that mentioned the razor slot and how the wall would end up full of razors, and I remembered it when i saw the article on the teeth, but is that literally what happened? Dear lord.