Because he died at 21. With perfect teeth.
148My teeth emphatically didn't look like that at 21. More like someone used a shotgun to implant them to my mouth. I could be from Britain for all I care.
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Because apparently some of us only eat peanut butter and never chew anything solid
55yogurt is yummy 😋
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Survivorship bias? Bodies that are in the right condition dry out and pull the teeth deeper set into jaw bones as part of decomposition, whereas otherwise the skeleton would not be intact?
51Why do our teeth grow in less perfectly now?
27https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_jaw_shrinkage
The main contributing factor to the recent increase in malocclusion is widely considered to be due to a sharp reduction in chewing stress, especially during critical periods of craniofacial growth.[10][1] Experiments done on non-human subjects have shown that induced nasal blockages and/or dietary changes earlier in life lead to maladaptive morphological change in their jaws, intended to simulate what we are observing globally in human children.[4] Significant craniofacial changes due to diet have even been experimentally shown in pigs during development; researchers fed groups either a hard-consistency diet or a soft-consistency diet, for eight months in total.[11] Drastic differences in jaw and facial musculature, facial structure, and tooth-crowding were observed; researchers directly related the findings to what we are observing more in human populations.[11]
so too much damn baby food?
95I recall also reading about people in Australia and some other places with diets consisting of harder food for developing babies/toodlers having better jaw/teeth ratios and straighter teeth despite no regular access to a dentist, which kind of corroborates the findings.
13Should we be giving our toddlers bones to chew on?
For real though, what about people who have gaps in their teeth? Did they have too much hard food?
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We eat soft, processed foods now. We used to graze and chew constantly, which helps the jaw grow properly.
21I think I’d read before that it was because most of our foods now are soft foods so our teeth/jaws are not as strong.
19Sugar content of our food is one of the reasons I read before as well.
12Before we cut our food in perfectly sized bites with utensils our ancestors used to do it by biting into large pieces of food with their front teeth. That would wear them down evenly to form a nice flat bite.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's the skeleton of someone who died way younger than we think as well.
4We eat shitty food
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My dentist said that it's because we don't chew much. We just eat a lot of soft stuff which somehow negativity affects teeth such that they don't grow properly.
26Could be, there's a similar remedy to wisdom teeth growing sideways. Apparently the body needs some sort of a signal for direction, so if you chew on a stick (e.g. a pencil) for 10-15 minutes each day, they should reallign themselves.
6You forgot the /s at the end of “fix your teeth by chewing on a pencil for 15 minutes a day”, right?
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Jealousy-> ENVY21ENVY-> INVISALIGN11Thanks, Homer!
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agriculture and its consequences (maybe)
20Kinda? Humans consume a lot more sugar than they did 10,000 years ago, in addition to other foodstuff that are terrible for your teeth
8You get cavities from sugar not crooked teeth. It’s that our food has become softer over the last few thousand years. Our jaws don’t get enough exercise during their developmental years. So they don’t grow large enough for our teeth. It’s also why many people have impacting wisdom teeth.
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Discovering fire and its consequences (real)
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far cry primal
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