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by HenryBemis 2339 days ago
Considering that "back then" (e.g. 2000 years ago) people didn't consume sugar, soft drinks, and their food was mostly natural and sparse (no 3 meals and 2 snacks), plus the fact that people didn't live to 100yo, I would assume that tooth decay was less of a problem.

Interesting article for about 12,000 years ago: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/06/tooth-d...

The comparison to London 200 years ago is astonishing, sugar is bad for us a hundred different ways!