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Hutchinson

Hutchinson’s Teeth, named after the British physician Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (July 23, 1828 – June 23, 1913), are a diagnostic feature that appears in children with congenital syphilis. This characteristic dental deformity represents a valuable source of information for forensic anthropologists like myself, especially when investigating historical skulls. Their unique shape, marked by a notch in the central incisors of the upper jaw, provides a clear indication of an individual’s medical history and can contribute to identifying disease patterns in past societies.

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Verschiedene Generationen

It’s Sunday, just another day, and I’ve decided to write more on my blog—sharing more about my life and experiences, particularly how I’ve trained myself to adopt a completely neutral perspective that allows me to see things in an entirely different way. Today, I learned that an acquaintance passed away. Not long ago, he had enthusiastically told me how, at 81, he had hunted a chamois in Austria. He belonged to the “Silent Generation,” a vanishing group from whom we still have so much to learn.

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