Association between oral habits, mouth breathing and malocclusion 

Ancient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce ‘f’s and ‘v’s

Validates that change in size of mandible is due to change in diet.

It’s not that your teeth are too big: your jaw is too small

Selection for jaw length is based on the growth expected, given a hard or tough diet. In this way, diet determines how well jaw length matches tooth size

Malocclusion and dental crowding arose 12,000 years ago with earliest farmers

Hunter-gatherers had almost no malocclusion and dental crowding, and the condition first became common among the world’s earliest farmers some 12,000 years ago in Southwest Asia, according to findings published (04 Feb 2015) in the journal PLOS ONE.

A hidden epidemic of shrinking jaws is behind many orthodontic and health issues, Stanford researchers say

For many of us, orthodontic work – getting fitted with braces, wearing retainers – was just a late-childhood rite of passage. The same went for the pulling of wisdom teeth in early adulthood. Other common conditions, including jaw pain and obstructed sleep apnea – when slack throat muscles interrupt breathing during rest – also just seem like par for the course.

Changing Faces Over Ten Millennia

Birth of farming caused jaw-dropping changes to the human skull, scientists find

Dental Detectives: What Fossil Teeth Reveal About Ancestral Human Diets