New trend? Think again

This morning someone called our surgery asking about how to 'glue' thing to tooth without using light. Turns out, it's to glue diamond to the tooth. You'd have thought it's a modern trend. Well you are wrong.

In the ancient Mayan kingdom of Copan (500-900AD) such adornment was used by privileged people. Last year, an anonymous sender sent a packet of two jaws adorned with jade to Honduran embassy in the Netherlands. The technique of putting those tiny jade was superb, no nerve was damaged from the process. Remember, it was done when there was no tiny drill, etchant or cement like they use when applying braces in our time.

I am always amaze with the technology that ancient civilization use back then, and wonder how it would have been like if their knowledge was preserved.