{"id":595,"date":"2014-12-15T15:44:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T15:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amberlydental.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2018-12-12T19:12:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T19:12:57","slug":"humans-one-set-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amberlydental.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/15\/humans-one-set-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do humans only have one set of teeth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If we had teeth like reptiles and sharks we would have no need for the dentist! I was watching a show yesterday on evolution. It peaked my interest because they were talking about teeth. Reptiles and sharks have several sets of teeth so if one has a problem, no big deal, they\u2019ll get a new one. Supposedly, we are higher up on the evolutionary chain \u2013 so why only 2 sets? Our \u201clifetime\u201d teeth allow for a stable occlusion or bite. This precise occlusion enables precision eating and chewing which turns out, is much more efficient than gnawing and ripping. Since our ancestors could digest so efficiently, they had much more time for hunting. Hey, I\u2019m glad we have more time to hunt! However, I\u2019m sure there are many people out there who would prefer shark teeth. No matter which way you look at it, evolution has decided that we\u2019re stuck with our teeth for the rest of our life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we had teeth like reptiles and sharks we would have no need for the dentist! I was watching a show yesterday on evolution. It peaked my interest because they were talking about teeth. Reptiles and sharks have several sets of teeth so if one has a problem, no big deal, they\u2019ll get a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberlydental.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberlydental.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberlydental.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberlydental.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberlydental.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberlydental.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberlydental.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amberlydental.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberlydental.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amberlydental.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}