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In a message dated 1/28/02 11:16:15 AM, freeform@... writes:

<< They had less decay, certainly, but dental decay has been
found in Neanderthals and all the way back to the Australopithecines, as
well as in people today who eat an entirely traditional diet. >>

In India, checking the state of teeth is high on the list of considerations
for arranged marriages. And so there are kids who inherit their parents'
matched sets of "good teeth."

In India they clean their teeth with sticks from trees. And because lots of
them don't have cavities, people here (being scientific on the first level of
correlation) make Pelu toothpaste, taking the chemical aspects of those twigs
and putting them into toothpaste to be used on a toothbrush.

People who won't use the same water cup twice in a row will use the same
toothbrush for a year.

Perhaps it's nothing about the chemicals in the twigs at all, just that they
use a different twig each day.

What they do is chew on the end of the stick of not just any tree, but this
one particular kind, until the end pulps out into a little paintbrush
softness (not long, just soft) and they use it like a toothpick, sort of,
rubbing it where food's collected.

Sandra