We are a civilization of terrible teeth. I say this with some personal knowledge, because with the exception of the four front teeth on the top and bottom, every tooth in my head has cavities and every last one deep fillings (albeit white rather than mercury ones).
The state of my teeth has everything to do with the diet I was brought up with. My parents, part of the “better living through chemistry” generation in America and buoyed by the postwar optimism of the time, placed their
