Pre-anethesia, you mean. There were dentists around for a long time, but I don't think you would've enjoyed being their patient...
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It means that humans developed empathy and the scientific means to help each other avoid natural selection. Intraspecies and interspecies empathy is the cheat code against natural selection. Certain ram species, for example, also were not designed intelligently, so as they age they may grow their horns until they penetrate their skull and kill them. Natural selection is most effective when it culls prior to the life form procreating. However, thanks to the power of empathy, we can abate natural selection by performing oral surgery on humans (ideally in our adolescence for wisdom teeth removal) and by shaving rams’ horns as they age. Ideally, as science develops and empathy spreads, we can come up with more effective and painless means to ensure everybody has a chance to live and be happy.
Every time people say "it'd be nice to live in the 50s" or something like that, I always think: "Nope, I'd never trade modern medicine for anything else."
Hell, even just 30 years ago was way different. My experience of getting a root canal in 2024 was a million times better than when I had one in the ‘90s.
Science is pretty goated ngl
Medical science is one of the only reasons I'm happy to be alive now and not during other times. Everything else is absolute shit, but our ability to manage and cure disease and the like is amazing.
Yeah, going to the doctor for a headache and seeing him pull out a drill doesn't sound too fun.
Yeah, but either way the headache goes away pretty fast.
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Well, either you see the drill and realize you don't have that bad of a headache, or the trepanning works (or kills you).
Either way, the headache goes away lol
From what I have learned, apparently a lot of trepanned people didn't die from it, suprisingly. Still, very true.
Of you're not the majority ethnicity, not male, not abled, not an accepted sexuality, any time other than the present would've sucked much much more than today does.
Watched a documentary on the history of surgery and man, modern medicine is one of the things I'm grateful for.
This ain't evolution. This is science counterevolutionarily keeping our ancestors alive long enough to procreate who should have died. I guess it's evolution in a way since we've evolved to overcome the evolutionary concept of "survival of the fittest" or natural selection.
Evolution didn't make your teeth to grow like this. While people in the past probably had shitty teeth keep in mind that modern diets filled with sugars, processed food and all sort of junk are a cause of teeth problems
That’s a wisdom tooth. They just grow like that, no sugar needed (I am wrong)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_tooth
"The oldest known impacted wisdom tooth belonged to a European woman who lived between 13,000 and 11,000 BCE, in the Magdalenian period. Nonetheless, molar impaction was relatively rare prior to the modern era. With the Industrial Revolution, the affliction became ten times more common, owing to the new prevalence of soft, processed foods."
Interesting!
Evolution didn't make your teeth to grow like this.
Modern diets are just selection pressure. Evolution marches on.