HOW JOHN´S TOOTH IS FIGHTING CANCER AT COTTINGHAM DENTIST'S

A staff at Castle Park Dental Care in Cottingham have been fighting mouth cancer using a necklace made with one of the music legend's teeth.
"The patients think it's great," said practice owner Chris Branfield.
"You turn on the TV and it's all doom and gloom and people come to the dentist and have apprehensions about that.

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"This is about communicating – showing that dentists are people, too, and if we can help along the way, then all the better."
The tooth has an interesting history.
Lennon came back from the dentist one day and told his housekeeper to get rid of it.
Instead, she gave it to her daughter as a souvenir.
From the housekeeper's family, it passed to Alan McGee, former boss of Oasis's label Creation Records.
Canadian dentist Michael Zuk snapped up the molar when McGee put it up for auction at Southport.
He paid £19,500 for it with a phone bid last autumn.
Mr Zuk, who collects celebrities' teeth and has even written a book about them, decided to have this one made into a DNA necklace.
"It's a fragment of a tooth," Mr Branfield said.
"You can get DNA from teeth.
"In fact, there are some companies in the UK that will cryogenically freeze teeth so in the future when they can cure diseases they have some of your DNA."
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