Sculpted from bone or ivory, or made up of teeth from dead or living donors, these dentures were uneasy and decomposed after extended usage. The first porcelain dentures were made around 1770 by Alexis Duchateau. Later, dentures were made of vulcanite and then, in the 20th century, acrylic resin and other plastics. There are many accounts of scavengers who, in ancient times, after hand-to-hand fights, searched the battlegrounds and eliminated healthy teeth from dead warrior's mouths and after that sold those teeth to local dental experts who created methods to make the "recycled" teeth into new dentures for their patients.

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