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Originally Posted by pdurrant
OK, I confess I was only reasoning from my own experience (My first five years were spent in an area with naturally soft water. My milk teeth were terrible. Then we moved to an area with naturally hard water. My adult teeth are OK -- One crown, filled molars, none lost.)
[EDIT: And a brief bit of research (which I should have done before posting!) shows that there is some heritability in tooth decay - the surface structure of the teeth does affect how susceptible they are to decay, and that structure is heritable. Apologies!]
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PHEW! I was sitting here wondering..what the hell could I have done differently? I'm not saying that we have monastic eating habits, but seriously, I can count on one hand the number of times we eat so-called "fast food" each year, and I'm including take-out pizza in that. And on both hands, total, in the last 20 years. We really aren't fond of it. Mr. Hitch had a sweet tooth (before his cardiac--those "stories" around the internet, about taste buds changing? All damn true.) for ages, yes--but basically, it's your simpler 3-5 squares a day around here, replete with dark green veggies, homemade granola, quinoa before regular folks could pronounce it, and all that. Not because Martha Stewart lives here, by any means, or that we have that New Age thing going on. It's just our taste buds.
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A study last year. I suspect that the 'common knowledge' is from higher rates of cosmetic dentistry among richer Americans. Although more UK people (who can afford it) are now having 'work done'.
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It's a damn good thing, too. Excellent for kids to get a good start. Now...how can we get them to have super teeth, AND a love of reading? :-)
Hitch