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What causes cavities?

Mel Rosenberg · TED

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About

When a team of archeologists recently came across some 15,000-year-old human remains, they made an interesting discovery: the teeth of those ancient humans were riddled with holes. So what causes cavities, and how can we avoid them? Mel Rosenberg takes us inside our teeth to find out. [Directed by Andrew Foerster, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Devin Polaski].

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed
Speaker
Mel Rosenberg
Year
2016
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health, History
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
Who can watch
TED gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from what the source says about it. How courses are placed