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| Earliest Record of Dental Disease |
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| “齿”(tooth), “龋” (caries) in oracle-bones on a stone rubbing |
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Earliest Record of Dental Disease“ ”indicates “caries”, " " indicates“insect disease”. |
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Background information
Oracle-bone inscriptions were discovered by Wang Yanrong
Portrait of Wang Yanrong, expert on metals and stones in the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), who discovered oracle-bone inscriptions containing medical knowledge among fossil fragments. |
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