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Stamps

Get your teeth into collecting

No, we’re not going to talk about philatelic per-
foration here, rather about a very special collec-
tion belonging to Henri Aronis, a former dentist
who has created a website that presents his fas-
cinating collection, already winning a string of
open-class awards.

There’s something for dental care already existed,
everyone: posters, sun- administered by the Etrus-
dry stamps, stickers, and cans and Phoenicians.
postcards... as long as it Long before that, in 2700
is related to the world of BC, came the first identified
dentistry! To whet your ap- dentist in Egypt, going by
petite, there follow some the name of Hesy-Re.
interesting pieces from the Techniques have changed
collection! over the centuries. Of
But first, some basic in- course there were the too-
formation about dentistry. th-pullers of the Middle
Dating back to more than Ages, but it was only really
1000 years BC, traces of in the 17th and 18th cen-

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