Glittering_Airport_3 t1_iybadv2 wrote
"you could easily die" lol u could maybe die of some kind of infection but most of human history before the days of toothpaste disagree
5neakyGuy t1_iybk7gl wrote
That was before everything is full of sugar and stuff that will degrade your teeth way faster
unsollicited-kudos t1_iyc45v5 wrote
People used to die of tooth decay all the time before toothpaste was invented, especially after the introduction of sugar. You can actually see "toothache" in death records of renaissance England. There's a reason we tolerated having teeth pulled without anesthesia.
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