tooth brushing is a compensation for eating too much sugar right? if you managed to cut sugar out of your diet somehow then it might be okay to brush your teeth less? idk
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I eat a fairly normal American diet and grew up in a place with minimal fluoride in the water, and I have near-perfect teeth
I also occasionally simply forget to brush
I do chew a lot of gum with xylitol but that's a recent development
Imo tooth quality is largely genetic
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iirc, your saliva starts breaking down complex carbs into simple carbs (aka sugar) as soon as they enter your mouth, so you'd have to cut carbs to zero, too
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Just simple carbs right? What about root vegetables? Or maybe since we cook them? Im thinking about starches
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eh i eat pretty much no carbs and no sugars but still find brushing useful, i do use novamin toothpaste which is the good shit (idk why novamin's not sold in US lol)
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I suspect it's levelling out genes, environment, and diet.
Genes: good tooth and mouth structure, and good overall health.
Environment: altitude, water quality, pollutants.
Diet: Sugars, hydration, saliva pH, mouth microbiome, and eating foods which may cause dental trauma.
I remember visiting a very poor area in Latin America once as a kid. Went to a very poor village in the jungle. Most striking thing I noticed was that everyone had perfect white teeth despite being so poor and presumably not having access to modern dentistry
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when I was in Kenya for a volunteer trip in 2009 I was intrigued to see that the folks in the rural area we visited had a particular kind of tree branch that they would break off and use to clean their teeth—I tried it a few times and it seemed to work okay.
just a datapoint
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(to be clear, I am not attempting to imply anything in particular with this datapoint! I don't know what it means. these folks didn't eat candy but they probably ate a decent amount of fresh fruit, which is sugary. they mostly had pretty good teeth iirc? could pull up pics lol)
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