If cavemen didnt brush their teeth, did all their teeth fall out?

What age did the average cavemen get to? (when i say cavemen, i have no idea which age i am referring to, presumably the oldest one around...) who only knows what category this question will go in, so please forgive wherever it ends up..If cavemen didnt brush their teeth, did all their teeth fall out?
Interesting question. Thanks for asking.





Pre-civilisation bodies are rare, but i can tell you what is common sense and that is that ancient man had different life expectancies, in different areas but you can expect nomadic tribesmen to live to their early middle ages on average (thirty-thirty five) and to around seventy at the maximum and the luckiest (very rare). Now, i know a lot of people have said 20. But that simpy isn't tenable, not even for women, for whom childbirth and health problems add to high mortality all the way to recent times, but men's bodies in particular are very very hardy and men don't stop producing hormones like a crazy person until around thirty, it's biologically untenable that men would die in their twenties, rather, for those that lived through the hazardous childhood phase- the twenties would be a period of strength.





Whilst bodies are rare we have for example plenty of neanderthals living till their fourties, and we have lots of dead bodies of young children, and very young women, but what we are missing in both ancient man and ancestors, is a lot of bodies aged from over ten to under the late twenties, we don't even have enough women to say that childbirth was as hazardous for them as it was for women in later periods -so it's proof by obscurity, but i think it's still a good inference.





In the middle east, we have a lot of bodies, because they preserve very well in dry sand- from this we know that most peoples teeth wore down to a very low level by their 30's, in a sandy environment, the sand gets in all the food, which hastens the erosion of the teeth.





dental problems plagued people their whole lives, there was teeth-pulling and basic surgery even in ancient times- people died from tooth abscesses and mouth infections. It would be totally normal to get a more idiosyncratic mouth with teeth missing and crooked as one gets older.





We've got a tonne of surgical implements from Sumerians and ancient egyptians. Regular dental hygiene, for ancient peoples, consisted of flossing after meals with thin grass and drinking and swishing water. No dentist would recommend this as a sole practice, but you'll find that people even today in parts of the world with no daily dental care undertake such practices, even purely as aesthetics. The idea of freshening ones mouth after a meal can be found in the most ancient of cuisines.If cavemen didnt brush their teeth, did all their teeth fall out?
Surprisingly no. I've seen lots of archealogical digs on TV ';Time Team'; and ';Meet the Ancestors';, and have frankly been amazed at the quality of some of the skulls and their teeth.





I think the 'rot' set in with the advent of sugar in our general diet. Until about the period of the Industrial Revolution, only the rich could afford 'sugar' or 'honey' in their diet. The common folk (us) ate a diet high in vegetable matter and low in meat, but high in fish if we lived at the coast.





The tooth brush was almost unknown until well into the 18thC and then only available to folk who had money and even then only to folk who actually knew anything at all about oral hygene.





George Washington for example, had no teeth because all of them had been extracted over time due to decay caused by poor oral hygene. Cannot blame the people back then, they simply did not know what we know today and accepted it as part of normal life.





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Well it depends on what part of the world they lived in. Some countries produce natural resources that are capable of cleaning their teeth. Along with their diet. They may not had ate that many sugars or other eatable foods that actually cause serious decay. But the answer to you question. I think properly early 30's.
Modern tooth decay is a by-product of our sweetened diets. The more refined sugar we eat the more acid bacteria are produced in our mouth.


A lot of damage to prehistoric teeth was down to a coarser diet. The more and harder you have to chew, the more it wears on your teeth.
I recently read a book about a caveman girl growing up. Most didn't live beyond late 20's, they had a very hard life. It described teeth pain, how they suffered with it until the abcessed ones made them sick %26amp; they died. This girl died at 15 while in child labor with her 2nd baby.
Believe it or not some kept their teeth, even though they didn't live that long. Bones have been found and their teeth were strong. They had a diet of lean meat and fruits pretty healthy, no preservatives, no complex carbs, grease or sugar.
maybe their teeth was much stronger compare to humans now .....they have to chew raw and hard foods so i guess their teeth is strong just not clean ....plus the bad breath .... but again good question though!! LOL got me thinking





p/s: break their teeth during accidents or their extremely strong wife punches them in the face LOL
Average age would have been a lot shorter than today and they probably died before all their teeth fell out.


Their diet would not have had all the refined sugar and carbohydrates that are so bad for our teeth.
Cavemen died before the age of 30. So it probably didn't matter much.





Or maybe they died because all their teeth fell out.





LOL.
Cavemen didn't eat sugar or processed foods.
They rarely had any sugar, except for some honey once in a while
im sure they didnt have great dental health.


lol!!


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They did not use sugar.


Teeth lasted a long time.


If one hurt, they pulled it out.
yes


probably early 20s
some of them did. most of them were just really jacked up.
Lol!!! Your question rocks!
how do we know cavemen didnt brush their teeth.