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A tiny acid riot where bacteria eat sugar and leave you the wreckage.
means A hole or hollow space, especially a decayed spot in a tooth or an empty pocket within a solid body.
from From Latin 'cavus,' meaning hollow — the same root that gives us 'cave,' 'cavern,' and 'excavate.' It arrived in English through Late Latin 'cavitas' and French 'cavité,' carrying its sense of emptiness all the way to the dentist's chair, where the hollow is one you'd rather not have.
- living culprit
- Streptococcus mutans ferments sugar into enamel-dissolving acid
- slow demolition
- Decay can take months before reaching nerves
- hardest tissue
- Enamel is your body's toughest substance, yet still loses
- ancient ache
- Cavities found in fossils over a million years old
- no regrowth
- Enamel cannot heal itself once breached
for instance
mammoth cave — world's longest cave system at 420+ km in kentucky, usa
son doong cave — world's largest cave chamber by volume in vietnam, discovered 1991
reed flute cave — ancient chinese cave with stalactites near guilin, toured since 1962