Posted on 07/18/2020 4:22:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Scientists have found traces of rampant tooth decay in the teeth of people living almost 9,000 years ago in today's Poland.
According to the researchers from the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, the disease, which is also known as [cavities], could have been the result of consuming too much fruit and honey.
Traditionally, it was thought that tooth decay became common only after man began to lead a sedentary lifestyle and use more processed cereal products. But, with farmers not appearing in Poland until about 7,000 years ago, the 9,000-year-old discovery has taken the scientists by surprise...
Professor Jacek Tomczyk from the Institute of Biological Sciences of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw said: "We used a fluorescent camera and various X-ray imaging methods. We detected [cavities], which was not a large enamel defect...
Although their diet consisted largely of fish, which contains anti-[cavities] effects used in some of today's toothpastes, people living in the Mesolithic age, would also eat berries and other fruits found in undergrowth, and possibly also honey.
Anthropologist Professor Krzysztof Szostek from the Institute of Biological Sciences of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw, said: "Tooth decay has various causes. It is not only diet-related. It also depends on eating habits: the frequency of eating meals or the composition and pH of saliva. But people consuming more sweet products do have a higher risk of developing [cavities]. Research carried out on the remains from the same period from southern and western Europe (Spain and Portugal) shows that [cavities] was more common there than in northern Europe. Diet was probably one of the main factors of this difference."
(Excerpt) Read more at scienceinpoland.pap.pl ...
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Proof that baseball cards were around then
That stick of gum was brutal to dentist bills
LOL
It’s still a major problem. Wanna see my dental bills?
Or maybe a pic of my dentist’s car would suffice!? :)
Wasn’t dental care one of the services shut down by the governors of the states? Someone needs to tell them we have already made fire and can tell the difference in eatable vegetation. Seems they are making every effort to push us back to the stone age by keeping us in our caves. Ringo Starr would be pleased. We, I guess, haven’t learned they are zug zuging us as we sit here.
rwood
Seriously? Even the book of Ecclesiastes mentions tooth problems. So much for science.
You don’t have to floss all of your teeth. Only the ones you want to keep.
I read that in a dental office many years ago and it stuck with me.
This is from more than 6000 years before Ecclesiastes, so much for non-science.
So Col. Pemberton didn’t really invent Coca-Cola. He just got hold of a formula brought from Poland by Pulaski.
Plus, the magazines in the dentist's cave were at least a thousand years old.
It’s still a major problem for some of us 9,000 years later.
Dung amulets?
Everyone knows that dogs don’t get cavities so they
probably gargled with dog saliva.
The processing of sugar played hell with peoples teeth.
Last time I flossed it popped out a crown! Dentist encouraged me to keep flossing...real hard...his kids are in college.
The base that fit the fake teeth into the jaw was made of lead. The top teeth were sourced from horses or donkeys, and the bottom were from cows and people.
After all that I'm not sure wood sounds that bad.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/519791/funky-history-george-washingtons-fake-teeth
The only magazine in the office I can stand is Tundra and Steppe.
Tribal Geographic got too political for me after we tamed the horses.
The constant propaganda about overgrazing and the retreat of the ice sheets is more than even a Denisovan could take.
I didn’t know they had Paczkis back then!
Yikes! The phrase ‘get the lead out’ comes to mind.
I think I’d rather just gum it than trying to make all that hardware work.
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