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[-] funtrek@discuss.tchncs.de 148 points 3 weeks ago

Because he died at 21. With perfect teeth.

[-] vonxylofon@lemmy.world 42 points 3 weeks ago

My teeth emphatically didn't look like that at 21. More like someone used a shotgun to implant them to my mouth. I could be from Britain for all I care.

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

ironic that that meme is 70s-80s dated. most brits get far better dental care than the average US citizen, where our health insurance stops before it covers our goddamned mouth bones.

[-] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

Isn't basically everyone getting better than the US? Except having a great military ofc.

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[-] archomrade@midwest.social 55 points 3 weeks ago

Because apparently some of us only eat peanut butter and never chew anything solid

[-] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago

yogurt is yummy 😋

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 3 weeks ago

Survivorship bias? Bodies that are in the right condition dry out and pull the teeth deeper set into jaw bones as part of decomposition, whereas otherwise the skeleton would not be intact?

[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 44 points 3 weeks ago
[-] ValorieAF@lemmy.world 92 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think inbreeding is going to solve this

[-] Sammy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 3 weeks ago

Outbreeding? (Alien bussy)?

[-] Jimbo@yiffit.net 7 points 3 weeks ago

Now we might be getting somewhere

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

According to porn hub, plenty of people are committed to trying.

[-] arin@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Inbreeding is what caused crooked teeth

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago
[-] arin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Look at the inbred dogs and cats, not hard to understand

[-] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

the original comment is a joke, you didn't need to clarify

[-] red@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 weeks ago

only one way to find out

[-] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 weeks ago

Why do our teeth grow in less perfectly now?

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 95 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_jaw_shrinkage

The main contributing factor to the recent increase in malocclusion is widely considered to be due to a sharp reduction in chewing stress, especially during critical periods of craniofacial growth.[10][1] Experiments done on non-human subjects have shown that induced nasal blockages and/or dietary changes earlier in life lead to maladaptive morphological change in their jaws, intended to simulate what we are observing globally in human children.[4] Significant craniofacial changes due to diet have even been experimentally shown in pigs during development; researchers fed groups either a hard-consistency diet or a soft-consistency diet, for eight months in total.[11] Drastic differences in jaw and facial musculature, facial structure, and tooth-crowding were observed; researchers directly related the findings to what we are observing more in human populations.[11]

so too much damn baby food?

[-] Caesium@lemmy.world 51 points 3 weeks ago

more like eating more processed food. and I mean like 'gone through a cooking process' kind of way. We do a lot more now than just burn our meat and eat veggies raw to get nutrients. we simply just don't need to work our jaws so hard to get what we need

if only my wisdom teeth got the memo :+:

[-] boogetyboo@aussie.zone 37 points 3 weeks ago

Oh mine got the memo. They lay peacefully, horizontally in my jaw, like little Saddam Husseins until they decided they wanted to visit other parts of my jaw and make friends along the way.

[-] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

I recall also reading about people in Australia and some other places with diets consisting of harder food for developing babies/toodlers having better jaw/teeth ratios and straighter teeth despite no regular access to a dentist, which kind of corroborates the findings.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Should we be giving our toddlers bones to chew on?

For real though, what about people who have gaps in their teeth? Did they have too much hard food?

[-] ajikeshi@lemmy.world 78 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

because people with very bad teeth survive nowadays

[-] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 73 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] abbadon420@lemm.ee 24 points 3 weeks ago

But he lived a long and happy life. He died at the ripe old age of 35

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Average age is not average for those that reached adulthood. Most adults still lived to decent ages unless you select for very dire situations, like the Black Plague, or specific outbreaks of violence, etc.

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[-] brillotti@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 15 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 weeks ago

Nuts and bones. Tree bark of the yew tree when you inevitably get indigestion.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yew wood, wouldn't you?

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[-] lemmus@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

We eat soft, processed foods now. We used to graze and chew constantly, which helps the jaw grow properly.

[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 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.

[-] smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 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.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

this also sounds like speculation.

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[-] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 26 points 3 weeks ago

My dentist said that it's because we don't chew much. We just eat a lot of soft stuff which somehow negativity affects teeth such that they don't grow properly.

[-] mihor@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago

Could be, there's a similar remedy to wisdom teeth growing sideways. Apparently the body needs some sort of a signal for direction, so if you chew on a stick (e.g. a pencil) for 10-15 minutes each day, they should reallign themselves.

[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

You forgot the /s at the end of “fix your teeth by chewing on a pencil for 15 minutes a day”, right?

[-] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 21 points 3 weeks ago
[-] pigup@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

~~ENVY~~-> INVISALIGN

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks, Homer!

[-] sus@programming.dev 20 points 3 weeks ago

agriculture and its consequences (maybe)

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago

Kinda? Humans consume a lot more sugar than they did 10,000 years ago, in addition to other foodstuff that are terrible for your teeth

[-] sus@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

The one I was thinking of is the (hypothesized) reduction in jaw size due to less need for powerful chewing, while teeth stayed the same size leading to many problems

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[-] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Discovering fire and its consequences (real)

far cry primal

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