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At the same time the European diet grew a great deal sweeter as the use of sugar became more widespread.
This gave rise to " Waterloo Teeth ", which were real human teeth set into hand-carved chunks of ivory from hippopotamus or walrus jaws.
The teeth were obtained from executed criminals, victims of battlefields, from grave-robbers, and were even bought directly from the desperately impoverished.
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