What Anglo Saxon teeth can tell us about modern health

[rangerrebew]

What Anglo Saxon teeth can tell us about modern health
September 6, 2018, University of Bradford


Evidence from the teeth of Anglo Saxon children could help identify modern children most at risk from conditions such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

Researchers from the University of Bradford found that analysis of milk teeth of children's skeletons from a 10th Century site in Northamptonshire, England, gave a more reliable indicator of the effects of diet and health than bone.

The study, published today, 6 September 2018, in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, shows that by analysing dentine from the milk teeth of the Anglo Saxon children, a picture emerges of the development of these children from the third trimester of pregnancy onwards, and is a proxy indicator of the health of the mothers. This is the first time that secure in utero data has been measured.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-anglo-saxon-teeth-modern-health.html#jCp

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

If there was more actual Food on the store shelves instead of poisonous preservative laden disease causing crap we'd probably add another 20 years to our national life expectancy.

There has never yet been a Viking skeleton unearthed that showed any tooth decay.

[roamer_1]

If there was more actual Food on the store shelves instead of poisonous preservative laden disease causing crap we'd probably add another 20 years to our national life expectancy.

There has never yet been a Viking skeleton unearthed that showed any tooth decay.

That is pretty well sustained across the ancient board.

[goodwithagun]

SJWs everywhere: Those white Anglo Saxons and their [shuffles deck]  in utero nitrogen values of dentine.

[thackney]

...There has never yet been a Viking skeleton unearthed that showed any tooth decay.

Dental Health in Viking Age Icelanders
http://paleodontology.com/fileadmin/user_upload/bulletin/bulletin_08-2/Richter_08-2.pdf

The purpose of the study was to evaluate dental health in Iceland 1000 years ago. Fifty-one skulls
were available for research. There were 1001 teeth present in the 51 available skeletons....

... Root abscesses were found in
45% of the skeletons, and were significantly more frequent in the age group of 36 years and older than
in the age group of 35 years and younger. Abscesses were significantly more frequent in males than in
females (Figure 6). Only a few cases of caries or caries like lesions were found (figure 7)....

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While not common, it is far from true to say never any tooth decay.  And as the article demonstrates, after they had more access to sugar cane, it became more common for tooth decay (dental caries).