Dental health of hunter gathers looks like it was much better than ours:
“Hunter-gatherers had really good teeth,” says Alan Cooper, director of the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA. “[But] as soon as you get to farming populations, you see this massive change. Huge amounts of gum disease. And cavities start cropping up.”
Additionally, they had better spacing due to eating tougher foods like high fiber items and tendons. So there’s less dental impacting like we have with wisdom teeth.
Nothing in this article addressed tooth decay or dental formation issues.
Also from the article:
I also never said we shouldn’t follow science or modern medicine.