Trivia: In 700 BCE, the Etruscans were the first humans to use gold for what?
Surgical tools
Dentistry
Art
Gold leaf
The correct answer is Dentistry
So why is this answer correct? : Gold is commonly used in dentistry today, but ancient “dentists” were using it over 2,000 years ago. The earliest evidence of this is from the Etruscans, an Iron Age civilization of ancient Italy. They knew that gold lasted a long time, so they used gold wire to fasten replacement teeth into their patients’ mouths. This was eventually followed by rudimentary cavity filling, and then gold crowns still seen today. A gold alloy is used in dentistry because pure gold is too soft.