[Ahban]

A teacher told me 20 years ago that Scandanavians all had straight teeth, and that a lot of peoples do, but the mixing of ethnic groups seems to produce teeth that are mismatched with the jaws.

[redhead]

"A teacher told me 20 years ago that Scandanavians all had straight teeth, and that a lot of peoples do, but the mixing of ethnic groups seems to produce teeth that are mismatched with the jaws."

Anthropologists and paleontologists in Iceland have stated that between the years 1200 and 1600 (I think,I don't have the dates with me) that there was not one cavity in Icelandic people. Presumably, this is a result of research done on exhumed remains, and is extrapolated from the number of skulls they were able to examine.

[DBtoo]

Now that you mention that, my father's family is/was French from south Louisiana. That family lived in that part of Louisiana since the 1700s when they came directly from France with some other families, and all my aunts and my father had strait teeth. My father married an Austrian women and had us kids, and while my mother also had strait teeth, I didn't until after braces.