say cheese
Apr 03, 2022
4 minutes
Words James Shackell
Of all the parts of the human anatomy, teeth definitely require the most maintenance. They’re the one bit of us that seems carelessly designed. God’s tedious mistake. If you leave teeth alone to do their thing, they will probably corrode, fall out, decay, grow in weird directions, become infectious and potentially even kill you. Kind of makes you wonder how the human race has survived with 32 little time bombs of pulp, dentine, enamel and cementum inside our heads.
The funny thing is, teeth are sort of an example of evolution going backwards. The average cave man probably had better natural teeth than you. Survey data
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