title: [Tooth pastes and oral hygiene in the Roman world].
abstract: The trial against Apuleius frames historically and socially the subject of oral hygiene, which hides behind the semiotic paradigm full of magic, superstition, and all of the roman cultural background which stems from the ancient greek tradition. After reading carefull the latin odontic prescription written by Scribonius Largus, Celsus, Plinius, Marcellus etc., we don't want to stop at a precise list of tooth paste ingredients but we have tried to interpret the ideological procedures and practices which guided the greek and latin therapeutic practices and daily hygiene.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienza dell'Antichità, Università di Messina, I.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lentini
mesh_terms: D049690:History, Ancient; D009910:Oral Hygiene / Q000266:history*; D018644:Roman World; D014100:Toothpastes / Q000266:history*
chemical_list: D014100:Toothpastes
vernacular_title: Dentifrici e igiene orale nel mondo romano.