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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

agriculture and its consequences (maybe)

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

Why do our teeth grow in less perfectly now?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

im p sure it has to do with stuff being easier to eat. we dont have to work with our jaw to tear or crush difficult foods since everything is processed or we have tools to make it easy. our jaws are underused, so they develop to be smaller than theyre supposed to be, and our teeth get crowded

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Before 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Everyone who's replied to you so far are wrong and speculating. The real issue is actually lack of nutrition and exercise for the mouth. We're not growing our jaws out quite right while our teeth are coming in.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

We eat shitty food

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Sugar content of our food is one of the reasons I read before as well.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Our food is way softer so we don't chew enough to maximise the growth of our maxillae and jaws.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

So... You're saying I should eat more bones and chew on trees.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

because people with very bad teeth survive nowadays

[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Well, that mf didn't survive either... He's dead....

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago

I 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.

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