For all we have to do to keep our teeth from rotting out of our mouths, it's intriguing that some acient skulls still have their teeth intact. amirite?

They didn't eat so much sticky carbs

by Anonymous 3 years ago

So it's definitely food related. From what I understand they have rarely found skeletons with teeth that had cavities, but instead were ground down from chewing. So even with our life expectancy greatly increased, it would seem that if our diets were the same we would grind our teeth down eventually and not have them rot or eaten away.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

My best guess it's cause everyone died at a young age back then

by Anonymous 3 years ago

True, also the stuff we eat today vs then probably rott our teeth 8x faster

by Anonymous 3 years ago

This

by Anonymous 3 years ago

People lived just as long as they do now. Child mortality was what brings the avg life expectancy down.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

That's what brought the average down so low but most people didn't live to blow out 60 candles 200 years ago. Now people dying at 65 are considered dying before their time in most countries.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Thats because people back then lived to the ripe old age of died in child birth

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I've never even had a cavity. Not sure what you people are doing. Brush twice a day, floss regularly, and visit your dentist twice a year. Yes, those are difficult depending on circumstance but they are simple.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Also having good genes helps

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I've never gad a cavity and I brush once, naybe twice a week.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Three things…. 1. We live 20+ years longer 2. We eat/drink 1000x more sugar 3. We literally eat chemicals

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Water is a chemical.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Literally everything made out of matter is a chemical

by Anonymous 3 years ago

And yet you know exactly what they meant.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

This person speaks the truth

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Poor ancient bastards never discovered peanut M&Ms

by Anonymous 3 years ago

No processed sugar I forget to brush a lot and I eat soo damn much sugar without it I bet I would've gotten a lot less cavity's

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Well obvy, they used toothpaste recommended by 9 Outta 10 dentists back then.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

>recommended by 9 Outta 10 dentists Literally

by Anonymous 3 years ago

It's probably all the Butylated Hydroxyanisole. I hear that stuff rots your teeth.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Those people probably didn't have sugar.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Our teeth rot from what we eat and most people quit eating when they're dead.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Touché

by Anonymous 3 years ago

I think everything which gets blood supply doesn't rot.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

They also didn't have refined sugars

by Anonymous 3 years ago

well probably cause since the corrosion spreads we dont actually find the ones that dont have teeth

by Anonymous 3 years ago

There is a distinct difference between skulls before refined sugar was common place and after.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Sugar wasn't a thing back then...

by Anonymous 3 years ago

It's our high sugar diet

by Anonymous 3 years ago

They ate less sugar and way more roughage.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

For a good span of human history, your teeth rotting in your mouth was the most likely thing to kill you. Also teeth were used as currency in some places.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Those skulls haven't been consuming copious amounts of sugar and various acids since they died

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Nutrient deficiency.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Because they didn't have that much sugar. You can see it especially in European skeletons, before they got sugar the teeth were fine and when they got it suddenly everyone had bad teeth and u could die from the infections.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

About the time sugar became easily available in Europe, the is a major decline in the health of people's teeth.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

Not a lot of Snicker bars back then.

by Anonymous 3 years ago

sugar

by Anonymous 3 years ago