Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? (2017)
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Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up? (2017)
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#2See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14895121 for some interesting past discussion
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#3You ever wonder when they show a tribe from G-d knows where that had barely any contact with our civilization, how come they've got perfect white teeth and they've got them all? Nothing crooked, nothing missing.
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#5Excess protein intake (vast majority of diets, not exclusive to keto or paleo, etc.)
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#6Human teeth development changed sometime during the industrial revolution when women were expected to work outside the home and breastfeeding norms were shortened from 3-4 years to more like 1 year. Or that's at least one interesting hypothesis from someone looking at old skulls.
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#7You ever wonder when they show a tribe from G-d knows where that had barely any contact with our civilization, how come they've got perfect white teeth and they've got them all? Nothing crooked, nothing missing.
No refined sugar in the diet certainly plays a big part.
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#8You ever wonder when they show a tribe from G-d knows where that had barely any contact with our civilization, how come they've got perfect white teeth and they've got them all? Nothing crooked, nothing missing.
Some form of dental hygiene is common worldwide. So, you can find young people anywhere with a clean smile. But, the worst cases get really bad.
Sadly, you will often see 40 year olds missing many teeth in those same areas.
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#9Excess protein intake (vast majority of diets, not exclusive to keto or paleo, etc.)
The article claimed that modern diets don't put enough strain on the jaw in childhood, so the jaw doesn't grow as much and there's more crowding. Has nothing to do with protein intake.
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#10A dentist told me that eating too many soft foods as a kid is often the reason for crooked and weak teeth, and that parents should feed their kids tougher whole foods, like apples, meat, carrots, nuts, etc.