Vintage Hygiene Practices That Are the Very Opposite of Clean

 
Soldiers Teeth Were Used to Make Dentures

When wealthy people lost their teeth, they had the option of replacing them with dentures. But not just any regular dentures, ones made of real teeth. In the 1800s, they were dubbed "waterloo teeth" because most of the teeth from dead soldiers at the Battle of Waterloo were used. It was a pretty gruesome process; people would go around the battle scene and pick teeth from the corpses of soldiers and then sell them.

Real teeth for dentures, belonging to dead soldiers nonetheless, are disturbing and scary to think about these days. Yet the wealthy of that time had no problem taking them.