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I mean, we're raised to think of dental hygiene as some kind of modern invention, but the reality is:

a.) a lot of modern dental hygiene is to combat modern sources of tooth decay (as mekkio pointed out, basically a crap ton more sugar), and

b.) there have always been tons of ways around the world to take care of teeth. Just Google medieval or ancient dental hygiene and you'll see what I mean.

Whether you're dealing with a historical or fantasy setting, or a post-apocalyptic one, the biggest reason why people's teeth will be fine is that there will be less sugar in the first place. Not only will there be less actual sugary goods - i.e. the sheer amount of candy and sweets we have today - there will be a lot less sugars in our non-sweet food, too (I'm eating Barbeque chips right now that probably have sugar in them, just not the sweetening kind of sugar). Less sugar and syrups means less things in our food that negatively impacts our teeth. Things like soda - deservedly one of the biggest sources of dental damage, due to the sugar and liquid corrosive property - will either not exist or not last long in those environments.

So from the get go, teeth are just much less likely to rot or face damage in the first place. But even from the other lifelong things that DO cause damage even in those de-sugared environments, there are tons of ways to take care of your teeth.

I mean for one thing, just aggressively swishing water through your mouth on a regular basis can actually do most of the work right off the bad - again, especially in an environment without things like excessive sugar or processed syrups to get stuck to your teeth. It's hard for us to believe today because a.) we grew up in a culture with a shit ton of commercial indoctrination about how much attention our teeth really need and b.) that commercial indoctrination partially had a point because our culture also has that crap ton of sugar and processed syrups in all our food, even on the non-sweet foods. (A lot of modern preservatives are also hell on teeth, but such preservatives won't be around in historical, fantasy, or post-apocalyptic environments.)

And if you want to go one step further anyway, there are plenty of ways to take care of your teeth naturally. You know how a lot of restaurants inexplicably offer a certain herbal see (I think it's parsley?) for people to chew after their meals? Very old-fashioned way of cleaning teeth. Just chew the seeds to clean the food, some water swishing/drinking for the sees, and voila, clean teeth without modern-day pseudo-pharmaceutical dental care or tooth brushes! :)

Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I found this post very interesting and informative. So, yay you.

Thank you. ^_^

Everything you said here.

Yep, I was coming here to say this. Up until sugar became a major trade commodity (Atlantic slave trade), only very wealthy people ate it regularly enough for it to affect their teeth. People would clean their teeth with herbs (if they had them) or just birch twigs (weak natural anti-bacterial) and had low rates of decay. You were more likely to lose a tooth through age or accident than by having to pull it out.

Archaelogists discovered beeswax used to fill cavities in a tooth 6,500 years old.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20795347

Teeth freak me out. I still have nightmares in which I lose them all.

Never heard about restaurants offering tea to chew, ever. What country do you live in and why don't I live there? :(

not tea, seeds. typo. never got fennel seed in an indian restaurant?

Have you never had a meal that came with parsley? Most people just push it aside, but you're supposed to chew it.

Late as all hell, but in case you are tracking this thread:

I live in America, and this is only something I've run into myself a handful of times, usually at very high-end Asian restaurants. By heresay, though, it's not exclusive to them by any means.

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