When do we get teeth that aren't made of a substance that our food literally dissolves? Seems like a major design flaw.

Think that speaks more to the quality of the food.

Yeah what unprocessed food that people regularly eat causes enough damage to dissolve teeth a noticable amount in one lifetime?

It’s not really the food dissolving the teeth.

Bactria feed food remnants and product bacteria, mostly sugars, and product acid that dissolves tooth enamel.

Without modern dental care, toothbrushes, floss, etc.? Pretty much everything.

You liked Wisdom Teeth, have you tried Wisdom Teeth 2?

They could be ready by 2030.

Statements like this make me question why I even bother to subscribe to this forum.

Every post here is fully of pop pseudo-science, double-digit sample sizes, correlation/causation fallacies, fact-destroying science news cycles, double-digit sample sizes, confirmation biases, conflicts of interests, fucking double-digit sample sizes, and every other fallacy, bias, and problem you could think of. Where's the real science with actual provable conclusions, perfectly peer-reviewed, and has an appropriately large sample size?!

Acidic food can dissolve your teeth. I'm aware of the involvement of bacteria but I didn't want to go into too much detail for this one-liner. The point is our teeth are very poorly designed to stay intact in the face of the dietary environment they are used for.

The quality of the food only matters because our bodies can't handle it. If we could improve our teeth (and other body parts) to be more resilient and adapted to available food resources then it wouldn't be considered poor quality anymore.

Sure, if you eat a lot of it and have poor dental hygiene. But you have to eat a lot of it. Like the only stories of it being a problem are like one person who would constantly drink lemon water. It's not particularly acidic, but the constant exposure made it a problem. Most people aren't anywhere near that level.

Well, I had this issue from drinking too much orange juice. I did drink it often but not an extreme amount I'd say. But even lower levels of acidity can cause your teeth to weaken over time.

The foods that damage our teeth the most are things that are really sugary and/or highly acidic. Things like sodas, sweets, alcohols, for a few examples. We already consider stuff like that unhealthy without considering what they do to our teeth. And unless you’re consuming stuff like that excessively, they’re not likely to cause you too many problems as long as you’re practicing good dental hygiene.

Fruit, salt. Anything that will bind with calcium, there's a lot.

Sounds like something to take up with the mods of the community, and should they disagree, a new community made.

I completely agree with you, it gets old seeing pop science. Should really be a rule that bans these types of posts.

Statements like this make me question why I even bother to subscribe to this forum.

Huntington's disease cured in 2025.

FDA throws out drug by March 2026.

Well that is a great example

The. BBC headline: CURED! CURED, I TELL YA!

Meanwhile in the article: its progression hasbeen slowed by 75%

Yeah, that is awesome still, but that is not cured. This sort of clickbait headlines are a prime example of the problem in /science and in science in general.

Everything needs to be a success, a revolution, something Mike dropping. Nobody wants gradual improvement anymore

Are they ever actually going to deliver this or is this some long running joke? I've seen this kind of announcements for decades and yet nothing ever came out of it.

I’m here with ya Zoot! Shall we explore medical science with a foot in truth and physical science!

The work being done on it in Japan at the University of Kyoto claims they would have an actual product by 2030. I don't know how much of that time frame is going into making it vs getting it approved for use.

I hope they actual deliver. Dental care is still the equivalent of wooden pegs.