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simojako t1_iuhja0i wrote

Reply to comment by sharrrper in The muscles in your jaw are probably strong enough to shatter your teeth, but the brain just won't let it happen. by soulsista04us

How does this still come up? It's so far from the truth. If your finger bones were only as strong as a carrot you would break them every time you bumped into something, and small children would chew their fingers off.

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[deleted] t1_iuhwx6g wrote

I too am dubious of this claim, but I'm not sure that your comparison is valid, since the bite force is concentrated to a small area, whereas bumps are typically distributed over a larger area. However, maybe this claim is valid if you bit on a joint, since joints aren't make of bone?

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simojako t1_iui4gb1 wrote

Take a chunk of skin in your mouth and see how hard you actually have to bite to make it hurt, let alone draw blood. Takes quite a bit of force before you get through the entire skin.

If you really want to test, try to bite through a chicken wing bone, and see how much force that takes. And a chicken bone is less dense.

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Corrupted_G_nome t1_iujvzno wrote

Yeah meat and bone is meat and bone. Chicken bones are more hollow and less dense so the conparison is slightly off. Anything you can damage on a plate with your teeth you could pull off IRL. A raw pork chop and human flesh are esentially tye same.

When the brain switches brainwaves we can access all of our strength. Ive worked with apes and they don't seem to really notice or care when they bite something so hard their teeth fall out. Not even enough to condition then to stop at a future interaction.

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