title: [Sugar and the birth of dentistry].
abstract: It took mankind some ten thousand years to get sugarcane from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. Once it reached Europe and the Europeans knew how to handle it, it took them only a hundred years to turn the production of sugar into the biggest industry of the world. Exactly in those hundred years the birth of modern medicine--and dentistry--is placed. This coincidence is too particular to be left unnoticed.
authors.affiliation: fd@euronet.nl
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dijs
mesh_terms: D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000266:history*; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000209:etiology / Q000266:history*; D005060:Europe; D006665:History of Dentistry; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D031786:Saccharum
chemical_list: D002241:Carbohydrates