The Impact of Dental Care on Population Health • Individuals who have an impacted wisdom are becoming infected and are dying before they can reproduce, because not everyone in the world has access to affordable dental care. • This shouldn’t be happening, but because not everyone has access to affordable dental care, an infected tooth can be deadly. Transcript: Speaker 1 Will individuals who have an impacted wisdom to are becoming infected and are dying before they can reproduce, because not everyone in the world has access to affordable dental care. And so this shouldn’t be happening, i guess is an important point. If everyone had access to affordable dental care, then this is not a thing. But because not everyone does, then an infected tooth can be deadly. And that’s something that, you know, when i talk to my, my students about this, that’s the piece they don’t, you know, that’s surprising to them, not the 35 million year business, it’s The weight, not everyone has access to affordable dental care. What you yo talking about, you know, seven and a half billion people on earth, and a lot of people can’t just go to the dentist. All right, ye, ye. Speaker 2 Unfortunate, exactly. All right, yes. O, for any listeners who might like to dive a little bit deeper into some of the stuf we’ve been talking about, whether it’s some brain evolution in the sort of long duray, or ants, or collective Intelligence, whatever it is. For any listeners who want to just dig deeper into some of these really interesting themes we’ve been talking about, are there any particular books you might recommend to them? Speaker 1 There’re a couple of booksthat i’ve read recently that are just beautiful, and to me, they really enthusiastically bring to life the kind of work we do and why we do it. One book is came out last year by rebecca ragsykes. It’s called kindred, and it’s a book about neandertalls. (Time 0:42:26)