Show ancient africans owned better teeth than we LONDON dental caries or cavities render doubtful any really great age for several apparently a primitive grimit ive skulls found in africa during recent years in the opinion of prof IV F dreyer of crey arl y university ollege college c Bloem fontein south africa professor dreyer has examined ex teeth from between 30 and 35 burials tn in south africa known to date far back into the old stone age and he has not found a single one of them with caries on the other er hand band teeth from more modern burials at the same site have many such buch defects |