What is the longest you've heard of a person going without having a cavity?

Seems to be sugar and acid in everything to make it taste better which makes for teeth without enamel. Welcome to mylot. Hope you enjoy it here. Take care.

I don't know the reason, I think there is too many varieties of why to nail it down. It can be their diet and what they eat that causes them to NOT have cavities..For example, my older (25 y/o) son who also eats lots of sweets, but also eats lots of cheese, just recently got his first cavity. While my younger son eats just as many sweets, he doesn't eat as much cheese and he flosses and brushes twice a day and has 4 cavities by the time he is 6-7... I also wonder if blood type has anything to do with it? You know how some people can go outside in mid-summer and get not one bug bite, even without protection, while another goes out, covering themselves with anti-bug spray and eats lots of garlic and yet comes home with many bug bites..

So did you figure out if it was heredity? The way they took care of their teeth? I think if my Mother had never left the farm, she would have never had one. She got into drinking juice, eating sweets every day and she still brushed 2xs a day. My Dad's family all loose their teeth before they get very old.

Yes, cheese would make more calcium. Probably get sugar off the teeth, too. I drink milk after sweets and my teeth do better than my husband's who does not drink milk afterward. He is starting to eat cheese with pie. A habit he picked up from me. I never got bit when I was young by bugs,but now I get bit the most. The change is in how much I swet. The bugs used to go to the inmates in the classroom who swet the most.From menopause on with the day and night sweating, it was terrible. Some study said that bugs are drawn to smell. So I would think phermones, too. Most bug stuff tries to mask the smell of people. Lemon works for some bugs up here. I used to swet so little, my Martial Arts instructor was worried about me. Now he wouldn't have to worry. As soon as I start to swet, it doesn't matter if I have bug spray on or not, my swet has an overpowering smell now. It used to be the little I swet, my hair obsorbed it and it released the smell of my shampoo which had smells that a bug wouldn't care about. Mostly it just smelled like soap and soap is a poison to most bugs. So now I'd have to shower every time I started to swet and leave some on me, but my skin is too sensitive for that. I've heard other stuff, too like diabetics get bit more by bugs, but don't know if that's true. Anyway, a good search would be "food that re-enamals teeth." A change in diet might be a good idea. Read down, too. Someone here knew someone with rotten baby teeth, but as an adult, didn't have cavities. At any rate, I think some of it is heredity, but some of it is probably diet and tooth care. I did watch a special on flouride. First children weren't getting enough, so they put it in the water. Then they started having kids do it in school, too thinking they weren't drinking enough water. Then the kids got too much flouride and it started to throw the enamal off balance and made it weaker. When, oh when, will Americans learn that more isn't better? Every few years, we have to fight with the FDA because someone overdoses on something. They want to take our alt medicine away from us. Yet government did this to kids' teeth. Here, we're on our own wells. We buy bottled water. Our wells have iron from all the ore miles that poluted our water years ago. Now they want to do hydrofracturing up here. Sorry to go on and on.

I meant without a cavity, not without a need for a filling. My Dad's side all went to their graves with false teeth. I hope Maggiepie got it filled. Bad teeth can affect your heart.

GreenMoo Did you have the goats then? Or am I mixing you up with someone else?Did you increase your intake of calcium? Of course it's hard to know how much more to take and it takes more than calcium to make a tooth like magnesium. This is very interesting. Thanks and take care.

There was the "old wives tale" that you lose a tooth for every child that you have - which is based on this so actually true. It's not so common nowadays with better dentistry and healthcare but it just shows that some of those Old Wives knew what they were talking about!

No, on both counts. Which is probably why I got a cavity!

My teeth are so tight that I even get dental floss between. After I lost a tooth and my teeth spread out more, I can clean them better. I've heard of toothpowder. Most people used to use baking soda in this country like a tooth powder. So things change from time to time as we learn more and/or become global. People with cancer, the Dr often tells to use baking soda as a tooth powder, but with a brush and not fingers. Thank you, I'm sure some people learned much that was new to them today.

I think some of it may be genetic. Some may be other things like drinking milk with sweets or having a lot of calcium in their diets,etc.

40 is wonderful. I wish I been able to go that long. I think if my Mom had stayed on the farm, she could have.

There are some waters that are mineral waters that have calcium in them. It's not just what you chew although cheese helps, but mineral waters like Perrier and a German one that I can't spell or pronounce that has even more calcium in it. Juice erodes,but mineral water can help put it back.

So much affects our teeth. My mom told me once that the only way to get calcium that effects your teeth is through what you chew. And acidic juices like lemon, pineapple, grapefruit erodes the coating on the teeth. This lets cavities in.

You tried. I wonder if the saliva changes, too. Because you drank a lot of milk and took vitamins.

In some cases, but read on. We have some interesting responses that agree with that and others that have other experiences.

Yes, I think for most people it's a combination. Heredity and diet.