Dr. Weston Price was a dentist who studied people groups all over the world. He found a connection between diet and the structure of the skull and how it affects the alignment of teeth. Maybe most people’s Irish ancestors came to the US after suffering malnourishment during the potato famine? Or, even living on just potatoes for a few generations before that affected bone and teeth structure? If his theory is true, then my diet must have been horrible for most of my life (and it was typical processed foods as a child) because I have straight teeth, but my girls do not. Two are having orthodontic work done and the two year old already looks like she will need it. Her crooked smile is cute now, but she will hate it when she gets older.
My daughter, like my brother, had a gap in her front teeth. I tried to talk her out of orthodontia, since I remembered how much my otherwise very stoic brother had suffered.
But she insisted so we got her teeth fixed.
I’m still of the mind that it was probably, in the long run, a waste of time and money, but we’ll see. Or she’ll see, because I probably won’t be around that long.