Stokes Dental Care

I read an interesting article that I wanted to share with my patients. For your enjoyment,  music is played throughout our office. I hope, as you hear the personal selection of music, that you enjoy it through your "teeth"  --- Dr. Stokes

BITE ME

A BRIEF HISTORY OF DENTISTRY AND MUSIC

by Paul Collins

www.believermag.com

July/August 2008 Edition

The auditory capacities of teeth may be demonstrated through a simple test.

First, find a quiet room to sit in. If you are wearing an analog watch, remove it from your wrist.  Open your mouth wide and suspend the timepiece inside your mouth without actually touching your teeth. You will hear a quiet ticking. But close your teeth upon the watch and you will hear a loud ticking. 

This is because you are hearing with your teeth.

THE AUSTRO-GERMANIC ERA OF DENTAL MUSIC

After the onset of hearing loss in 1798, Ludwig van Beethoven listened to his compositions by jamming a wooden rod between his teeth and resting the opposite end on his piano's soundboard. The concept is known as bone conduction: by passing vibrations through his mandible and into the cochlea, Beethoven circumvented his damanged middle ear and routed sound directly to the inner ear.