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[–] [email protected] 148 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because he died at 21. With perfect teeth.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Eh, I deal with a few British people on a daily basis. Still relevant.

Edit: typo

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

yogurt is yummy 😋

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hear me out: inbreeding.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I don't think inbreeding is going to solve this

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Outbreeding? (Alien bussy)?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Now we might be getting somewhere

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mass effect?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Garrus Bodypillow 100% run, no skips, no OoB

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Based

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Inbreeding is what caused crooked teeth

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

joke?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

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

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

only one way to find out

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

~~Jealousy~~ -> ENVY

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

~~ENVY~~-> INVISALIGN

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

Thanks, Homer!

[–] sus 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

agriculture and its consequences (maybe)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah. I remember a story about an anthropologist who went to a indigenous tribe, IIRC somewhere around the pacific, he took photos of everyone’s teeth. Everyone had straight teeth from the kids to the elderly. Then a generation later someone else did the same thing. Went to that tribe and took photos. Many kids had crooked teeth. The only thing that changed is that they adopted a Western diet.

Can’t remember the name of that anthropologist, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You get cavities from sugar not crooked teeth. It’s that our food has become softer over the last few thousand years. Our jaws don’t get enough exercise during their developmental years. So they don’t grow large enough for our teeth. It’s also why many people have impacting wisdom teeth.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Discovering fire and its consequences (real)

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

far cry primal