Dentures

These dentures were recovered from the block on the northeast corner of Simcoe Street and Adelaide Street West, in Toronto. Archaeological Services Inc. (ASI) conducted this excavation in 2007. Almost 70,000 artifacts have been found on the site. Among them was a part of a set of dentures made of an acrylic resin dating them to around the beginning of the twentieth century. Dentures have a long history - they are known to have been made out of human and animal teeth by Etruscans in 700 BC; some were made of wood and others, like the ones belonging to George Washington, were carved from hippopotamus ivory.