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If we don’t observe good dental hygiene we tend to lose our teeth. How did early man cope without toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss, etc?

How did early man cope without all the things we associate with good dental hygiene today? Did they continually lose their teeth and just deal with it? Or did they also observe rudimentary dental hygiene practices to slow tooth loss? Also, isn’t tooth loss due to decay a kind of evolutionary flaw?
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IANAA.

Early man didn't have toothbrushes (but maybe they had some plants they could chew to scrub their teeth and freshen their breath), but they also didn't have refined sugars, so they might not have needed to clean their teeth as often in order to keep them.