Re Jaw under developed due to inadequate suckling.
My great uncle would suck his teeth clean and never had a cavity. We
marvelled at his long tongue and how this could reach so well. As a country
boy he was probably suckled long enough to develope a long tongue and his
teeth would have enough room in the jaw (a great rarity in my generation and
younger) because the jaw would have developed properly through suckling.
This jaw developement shouldn't be overlooked when considering tooth decay
as natural cleaning of the teeth is now so difficult as they are so
overcrowded. I have heard a dentist attribute this overcrowding to
evolution, presumably on the basis that people in breastfeeding cultures are
less evolved than formula fed societies. Another thing to make me dubious
about the theory of evolution but that's off topic!

Re Dentists clipping attachments.
I'm trying to find out whether this is allowed/practised here in the UK by
writing to a dentist magazine. My friend's attachment was clipped as an
adult in Germany and he was told that it would have interfered with
breastfeeding.
In contrast my son's dentist thought feeding a toddler 'not British' and
refused to clip his attachment 'at his age'(3). We are not very
multicultural here in Dorset so I guess he just doesn't know much about
other cultural norms in breastfeeding.
Anyway, has any one anything to offer on dentists clipping attachments
elsewhere in the world? Thanks.





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