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ways_back_room2018-07-17 01:24 am
inlovewithwords) wrote in ways_back_room2018-07-17 01:24 am
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tuesday de: chitter chatter
What's dental work like in your character's world and how do they feel about it?
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Bastion doesn't eat food or have a humanlike body plan, so they weren't built with teeth, or a mouth. They're aware that humans have their own forms of bodily maintenance and that's how they categorise dental work.
Trolls' teeth grow back if they're lost, although not very quickly. Or at least Equius's do. (I guess Sollux will get his oversized front teeth and resulting lisp back eventually if that's not just a blueblood thing, since he's the only other one who's lost teeth in canon.) Alternian dentists probably don't have many methods of dealing with a problem tooth beyond yanking it out. It's a moot point, because the planet's been pretty thoroughly destroyed and the Sgrub trolls are going to have to resort to amateur dentistry if anyone develops a bad tooth.
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Dentistry in the Viking age would probably be even more terrifying, as a simple pair of pliers would do the trick for a rotten tooth. Painkillers? Booze, maybe? I'm sure healers had herbal remedies for toothaches and infections. I don't think Floki is too concerned about it.
Pam and Cassidy are both in the present day, but neither of them need dental work. For Pam's breed of vampire, though, the extraction of a vampire's fangs is a humiliating punishment, and they take several years to grow back.
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https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/02/0203_060203_viking_teeth.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2014.323
http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/dental-health-in-viking-age-icelanders/
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The game has a kinda late medieval/early renaissance setting (with magic!) so, yeah, dental care is going to be bad (unless magic!) but I feel that many folk will have good dental self care habits, due to the influence of certain gods.
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Ellen's world has no canonical dentists or evidence of dentistry. There are doctors around, but on her side of the continent they are very few and far between (I am personally convinced that the majority of post-nuclear doctors are Followers of the Apocalypse, which means they're mostly out west). I'm guessing the doctors tend to handle most dentistry as far as they can, which isn't great given the lack of actual dental technology. The Brotherhood may have some decent stuff because they're about reclaiming tech, all kinds of tech.
However.
I have created one Millicanonical post-nuclear dentist in the Philadelphia area as an NPC for Ellen. His name is Painless Parker. I'm debating having him as part of the crew in the Commonwealth because I didn't get to do nearly enough with him down in Philly. He's based on the real world Painless Parker, who is an historical street dentist who attended the Philadelphia Dental College, which is now Temple University School of Dentistry. I mostly created him because doing dentistry as an act of showmanship while wearing a necklace of 357 teeth just seems like such a Fallout thing to do, and also because up until the 1970s in the real world all students who attended the school had to carve a full set of teeth from wax or wood before graduating in order to demonstrate their knowledge of the human mouth, and I just wanted somebody in that world to find a museum full of fake teeth. A guy who taught himself dentistry from scavenged books and models seemed pretty Fallout.
Anyway, other than Painless Parker, I am reasonably sure there are low-tech but still moderately viable dentistry options out there in the wastelands. There's a tooth from the Italian peninsula that was partially cleaned with flint tools some time close to fourteen thousand years ago, and there are drilled teeth from the ruins of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro nine thousand years ago. People in the Fallout universe would have come up with drilling options in the ruins of what used to be America, I'm positive. Not to mention that if you scavenge enough crap in Fallout 4, you can actually find toothpaste as an object... so while there are no canonical dentists in the Fallout universe I am reasonably sure that there are trained dentists in the Followers of the Apocalypse and the Brotherhood of Steel, probably dentists in the New California Republic, and crude but still effective dentistry practiced by less specialized doctors.
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The rest are from Earth AUs so one assumes it's about the same as real life. They do their due brushing diligence. Creed really takes care of his because we want those fangs in tip top shape.
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