Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother

Teeth as time capsules: Soviet secrets and my dentist grandmother

In postwar Warsaw, my grandmother Zosia fixed the teeth of prisoners and spies. In doing so, she came into contact with the hidden history of her times in a way few others could Teeth are our meeting place with the outside world, the point of attack. Crystalline and mineral in nature, teeth show us at…