Why so many cavities?

why do we have so many cavities today than past times? is it our diets? i drink no soda, or juice, floss daily brush with toothpast and perscription flouride, and use mouthwash!! so why do i still get cavities? i also limit my sugar, and sticky foods.....are there any web sites out there that have any theorys pertaining to a " diet for healthy teeth?" or and theorys at all??? please share! BTW im not vegetarian or vegen...i get plenty of dairy and calcuim!

Why so many cavities?
in a typical American diet, there's usually not enough fluoride, calcium, vitamin D, phosporous, and other bone-building material for our teeth. but I found an interesting article you can look at...
Reply:Perhaps it's your genes. Some people are born to have healthy teeth due to the genes that allow them to have so, others may not have it. So it also depends on whether your parents, grandparents ....and so on in your family have healthy teeth. Do you visit your dentist twice a year?
Reply:There has been some new research relating high cause of cavities to a specific bacteria on the back of the tongue.


Ask your dentist about it.
Reply:Multifactorial-the causes of cavities that is.If you said your diet is ok and that you maintain proper oral hygiene,then it could be other factors: heredity is one, endocrine disturbances,physical condition of patient(age,pregnancy),the structural quality of tooth,malpositioned teeth,developmental defects,occupational influences,physical nature of food,composition of saliva(thin and watery saliva is ok but thick saliva is not good),exciting factors-meaning bacteria present within the mouth-it could be acid producing bacteria,et.al (acidogenic,acidophilic,proteolytic,prot... type of bacteria).
Reply:I think it has a lot to do with diet. I read somewhere (I can't remember where, or I'd link it, but I remember the pictures vividly) of a study done on oral health of "western" societies vs. those in more "primitive" societies, like hunter-gatherers. This group of hunter-gatherers in the center of the study was being introduced to western diets, and as time when on, their teeth (which before had been pretty healthy) began to decay, with gum disease, cavities, rotting teeth, etc.





Not only people, but animals that before had healthy teeth are being negatively impacted by modern diets. There are cases of racoons getting cavities after living off restaurant garbage dumps and such. (And have you seen a dog's mouth after it's been living off of canned dog food? Eech! Although that has a lot to do with lack of mechanical cleaning, too, which dry dog food provides at least some.)





I just think it's amazing... There are literally hundreds of different types of edible plants out there, yet nowadays we live off roughly twenty of them. And sugar is in EVERYTHING. Yet for the most part of human evolution, sugars were a rare thing, very much a treat -- that's why our tongues are so sensitive to it.





Genetics for sure play a role in how sensitive each in individual is to decay risk, but I think diet has a lot to do with it. There's no way that it is natural for so many people to have bad oral health as there are in today's world. Something is definitely off somewhere.