When you see images of skulls from 100,000 years ago, they have seemingly perfect teeth.
Today, modern humans have terrible dental health. I understand sugar causes a number of issues- the growth of bacteria which decays enamel.
What is the process teeth go through in the modern world to cause this? How quickly after consuming a sugary drink for example does this degradation start to occur?
And as a follow up, how does tooth paste help prevent this?
Conspirancy theory here from a non-biologist: flouride. It was used to fuel radioative experiments, then when the company behind this got sued, they sold flouride as good for teeth and globalised it. Also, given that we all know lead is terrible for health, and that now we know microplastics are find in our brains and everywhere, maybe they could be a sum to the cause? idk. Correct me, biologists, I’m just giving my cent
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3467640/ https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/full/10.1289/EHP655 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491930/
