As Price reported, and other researchers would confirm, isolated populations—including Swiss mountain villages, pastoral populations in Central Africa, the Inuit and First Nations people of North America, South Pacific Islanders—had nearly cavity-free teeth and retained their teeth for life, as long as they consumed their traditional diets and avoided the sugar and white flour that had come to dominate diets in the United States and Europe. “It is true that dental caries was not a major health and economic hazard until refined sugar was made available,”
