What Twitter/X has become... "The Tooth Worm as Hell's Demon,” 18th century. The two halves open up to reveal a scene about the infernal torments of a tooth worms which people believed caused cavities in the past. Complete with mini skulls, hellfire, and naked people wielding clubs. #skystorians - ThreadSky

drlindseyfitz.bsky.social • 90 days ago

What Twitter/X has become...

"The Tooth Worm as Hell's Demon,” 18th century. The two halves open up to reveal a scene about the infernal torments of a tooth worms which people believed caused cavities in the past. Complete with mini skulls, hellfire, and naked people wielding clubs. #skystorians

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johnesimpson.com•90 days ago

(laughing)

bowman120.bsky.social•90 days ago

Is that a human tooth? Remarkable detail!

drlindseyfitz.bsky.social•90 days ago

No, not a human tooth - but it's very small. As you say, remarkable detail!

kitty-wampus.bsky.social•90 days ago

Do you know what material it is?

lauramakesart1.bsky.social•90 days ago

As someone who just had their 3rd oral surgery in a year - can confirm this image.

jazzrat2000.bsky.social•90 days ago

Here's one I made that's cuter but also hot

kitty-wampus.bsky.social•90 days ago

Looks like little Cavity Demon is standing on a mound of brown sugar!

jazzrat2000.bsky.social•90 days ago

Yes waiting to go mining

kitty-wampus.bsky.social•90 days ago

I used to do cloth dolls (art dolls) and your Tooth Demon is screaming to be made into a sculpture. And a children's book. Some sort of relationship between your Tooth Demon and the Tooth Fairy... like Heat and Snow Miser maybe...

jazzrat2000.bsky.social•90 days ago

Go for it! it's modeled on a figure from the Middle Ages which is a lot grosser

dontberuthless.bsky.social•90 days ago

I just want to take a moment to thank modern dentistry. 🙏

merlino37.bsky.social•90 days ago

The Musk objective was to first make X prove hell is other people, and then do the same for the USA.

out-ofjanshead2.bsky.social•90 days ago

☹️😣😳😵‍💫😵‍💫

stlprogressive.bsky.social•90 days ago

Wow, that’s so interesting. I didn’t know that’s what some people believed.

peteremmert2025.bsky.social•90 days ago

Mr. Moschus has done this (Elon's last name in Latin).

thewebster75.bsky.social•90 days ago

Good god.

thelionseye.bsky.social•90 days ago

Does RFK Jr know about this? Maybe he'll rethink his whole fluoride stance

boomerbrad.bsky.social•90 days ago

I simply love this post.

angryalgonquin.bsky.social•90 days ago

A picture of its owner might be enlightening, as perceived by Gustave Doré.

jeannetteblue.bsky.social•90 days ago

Oh that’s why this !2nd! root canal failed. Knowledge is power.

themeek.bsky.social•90 days ago

I am DEFINITELY drawing my own ideas for tooth worms when i get home

dcg2016.bsky.social•90 days ago

They may have been scientifically incorrect, but the 18th century artist nailed the agony of toothache

dcallif.bsky.social•90 days ago

That's really cool! How large is it? Not that it matters just curious 😁

mechtheist.bsky.social•90 days ago

RFK Jr is an example of a brain worm causing large cranial cavities.

rigg.lgbt•90 days ago

🦇🖤🦇

oldandcrippled.bsky.social•90 days ago

Wow! What skill. Reminfs me of the doom paintings you see in churches.

golferdan.bsky.social•90 days ago

Interesting. Now I know why my toothache hurts so bad.

kitty-wampus.bsky.social•90 days ago

This is the sort of knowledge I love collecting. Not being a natural at parties, this is the sort of thing I tend to bring up. Stuff like this helps sort out the boring people.

thunderrose42.bsky.social•90 days ago

This made me laugh so hard because this depictions of the pain is, hand over fist, more accurate than any fact-based discussion regarding bacteria and exposed nerve endings.

bjorsater.bsky.social•90 days ago

How come no one makes art like this anymore???

kurek.uk•90 days ago

Having a tooth extracted next week. I hope all the tooth worms will also be removed.

joydesigner.bsky.social•90 days ago

Dentistry is science. Can’t have THAT!

meri13fromnola.bsky.social•90 days ago

A toothache feels more like a demon with an icepick stabbing the nerve. Thank God for modern dentistry and antibiotics.

drlindseyfitz.bsky.social•90 days ago

Tooth worms have a long history, first appearing in a Sumerian text around 5,000 B.C.E. References to tooth worms can be found in China, Egypt, and India long before the belief finally takes root (pun intended) into Western Europe in the 8th century.