Show bare tooth troubles of earliest americans washington discoveries of very ancient indians la in now new mexico not only indicate that the early red men lived as long iong as 1510 B C Q but show that their teeth to in the far off time had suffered the same ravages as we endure today caries or jenvit les ny pyorrhea orthen and alveolar abscesses the causes for the development ol of these diseases in such an early race are hark haril to determine their food wa was 3 meat and grains sich bitch as we use today carious cavities of huge dimensions developed dev loped in unworn teeth so we cannot ascribe caries to the wear ing down of 0 the teeth by coarse food pyorrhea was rampant and resulted after the age of forty ill file ae or fifty either in total loss of the teeth or their serious abscesses are infrequent and never seem so huge as Is often in the pre columbian peruvians alveolar fistula have not yet been seen A single ense case of im pact lon out of fifty four skeletons was found |