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True but irrelevant. Cavities begin showing up in the historical record several millennia before the advent of candy and soda.
If nothing else, dogs and cats get cavities and they're not eating a gallon of coke or a bucket of M&Ms...
Most cats and dogs are eating carbohydrate rich mass produced pet food made by a very familiar privately owned chocolate company.
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The question should be "where are the missing teeth?, and why?
Tooth Fairy has them, obviously.
It’s why she’s been able to keep her rates so low today, she has a huge backfill from our ancient ancestors’ teeth.
19 years ago I went to the dentist and he told me I needed to have a cavity filled. I skipped that. I didn't go back (or to any other dentist) until last year. Got the x-rays. No cavities.
Stuff works.
Oh and stop eating sugar.
Like to add to this conversation that scientists have found ways to prevent cavities but these are not made available to us. For example, genetically modified streptococcus.
Novamin is not available for sale in the US (though you can get it off ebay) and supposedly it is a toothpaste additive which can directly deposit onto teeth.
[1] e.g. https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/dr.-collins-biomin-toothpa...
So apparently some think cavities (caries) are contagious via mouth fluid exchange in kissing... if so, then perhaps an ancestor became an unwitting host through some unknown mechanics. Perhaps poorly cooked jowls of some sort.
When your diet is mostly meat based, and some foraged greens and rare fruit, it is not the ideal environment to feed the process that creates cavities. Also, I'd imagine tooth extraction predates a lot of modern history, which may skew results, but that is just a guess on my part.
I bet if you look at ancient people in tropical areas they had less teeth as well as less need for them.
That’s easy. Sugar.
I’m mid 30s and have never had a cavity. I go to the dentist every 6months. I also have a huge sweet tooth.