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PROSECCO TEETH UK sales are soaring but it seems there is a dark side to sipping prosecco. Dentists are reporting an increase in the so-called “prosecco smile” as the triple whammy of acidic carbonated bubbles, alcohol and sugar (half a teaspoon in every flute) is rotting teeth. Fizz fans are being advised to consume less or use a straw and to avoid brushing for at least an hour after drinking.


CANINE CARE Dogs are being used by a dentist in Venezuela to help anxious children with autism, AP News reports. The specially trained pups – including Zucca the labrador and Perry the pug – lend a


reassuring paw by donning fancy dress and sitting in the treatment chair with the young patients to calm their nerves.


REWRITING HISTORY Fossilised teeth found in a German river could prompt a rewrite of human evolution, it’s been claimed. Researchers at Mainz Natural History Museum say it’s inexplicable for the 9.7 million-year-old “ape teeth” to be found in the Rhine – six million years before and several thousand miles away from Africa where it’s thought human ancestry began.


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FROM THE MUSEUM


These balances were used in the late 19th/early 20th century for the preparation of amalgam (a mix of silver and mercury). In the larger scale, the long arm bracket celluloid cup measures the alloy while the shorter arm is for the mercury.


The small balance, first sold in 1886, features one large and two small measuring cups. CROSSWORD


ACROSS 1. Fleshy growth on cockerel’s head (4) 3. A premolar tooth; a tooth with two cusps (8)


9. The upper jaw (7) 10. Desolate (5) 11. Fixed in one’s thinking (6-6) 13. Time sensitive (4) 15. Crown restoration placed over prepared natural crown (6)


17. Without vocals (12) 20. Evidence of innocence (5) 21. Disparage (colloq.) (4,3) 22. Boastful person (8) 23. Nile Rogers and company (4)


DOWN


1. Connective tissue covering tooth root (8)


2. Bitter lemon, say (5)


4. Archaic form of imams (6) 5.


6. To go before (7) 7.


City redevelopment (5,7) Ditch (4)


8. No compromise available (3-2-7) 12. Profuse (8) 14. Soft tissues overlying the crowns of unerupted teeth (7)


16. Unarmoured cavalryman (6) 18. Used to cut or chew food (5) 19. Glad rags (4)


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PHOTOGRAPH: BDA MUSEUM


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