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Orthodontics - The Solution to a Problem
With industrialization and with industrialized agriculture, we've got to solve problems like getting everybody fed. It turns out it changes the developmental environment on our jaws and our teeth such that our jaws don't develop with the same musculature. And so they don't sort of spread and get big enough. Our teeth get more and more crowded with our weak jaws. So we're kind of weak and feeble in the mouth. And that means, okay, now we need orthodontics. That is a solution to a problem that we created trying to solve another problem.