Tooth decay was major problem for our ancestors 9,000 years ago

Science in Poland ^ | Friday, July 10, 2020 | Szymon Zdzieblowski

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

[A_Former_Democrat]

Proof that baseball cards were around then

That stick of gum was brutal to dentist bills

[Viking2002]

LOL

[TigersEye]

It’s still a major problem. Wanna see my dental bills?

Or maybe a pic of my dentist’s car would suffice!? :)

[higgmeister]

Really?   Who is the weak minded genesis who felt the need to check that?   He probably posited ancient man had Mastodon dung amulets that kept them from ever having a cavity in their magic teeth.

[Redwood71]

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

[aimhigh]

Traditionally, it was thought that tooth decay became common only after man began to lead a sedentary lifestyle and use more processed cereal products.

Seriously? Even the book of Ecclesiastes mentions tooth problems. So much for science.

[bramps]

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.

[SunkenCiv]

This is from more than 6000 years before Ecclesiastes, so much for non-science.

[Verginius Rufus]

So Col. Pemberton didn’t really invent Coca-Cola. He just got hold of a formula brought from Poland by Pulaski.

[SunkenCiv]

Plus, the magazines in the dentist's cave were at least a thousand years old.

[Bonemaker]

It’s still a major problem for some of us 9,000 years later.

[tet68]

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.

[Bonemaker]

Last time I flossed it popped out a crown! Dentist encouraged me to keep flossing...real hard...his kids are in college.

[LeoTDB69]

Even George Washington had his teeth issues (but his dentures were not wood as many believe).

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

[Bonemaker]

[TigersEye]

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.

[Bonemaker]

I didn’t know they had Paczkis back then!

[TigersEye]

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.