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Podcast: The Healthy Mouth Movement Podcast
Episode: History of Braces
Description: Did you know that human jaws were a perfect fit for human teeth before the agricultural revolution? Our hunter-gatherer ancestors had big, strong jaws to chew uncooked vegetables and meat, and their teeth were perfectly aligned. But with the arrival of farming and the switch to softer, cooked foods, our jaws started to shrink while our teeth remained the same size, leading to dental crowding and malocclusion. In this episode, we'll explore how these dietary changes and other factors such as physical activity led to major changes in human jaw structure, and how people throughout history have tried to...