Scratch Tells All Analysis

Tooth decay is a very important thing to watch out for, the articles "A Scratch Tells All" by M. Bryant and "Hard Facts" by J. Simmons III talk about tooth decay and explain what it does to someone. To not get decayed teeth, you need to watch your diet and make sure it doesn't have a lot of sugar in that meal, and make sure you brush your teeth daily. Author Joe J. Simmons III talks about this issue and how dentists are here to help people with the issue; meanwhile, Vaughn M. Bryant explains what causes tooth decay and how the percentage of it happening to people is increasing due to the diet they have. They both have good evidence and solutions to these problems; however, M. Bryant has more evidence to help support his claim, he has facts about the past that prove what tooth decaying can do, and he has some universities that have evidence about tooth decaying from different skeletons.

The article by M. Bryant explains tooth decay better than J. Simmons III. M. Bryant stated, "Emory University's George Armelagos, who studied the Dickson Mounds skeletons, also found that the life expectancy of those early farmers dropped to 19 years." This shows what happened to the farmers from an early age and what would happen to some people if they had tooth decay. There are also burials at the Dickson Mounds in …show more content…
Simmons does talk about tooth decay, but it explains how dentists help stop it. This would be a good argument, but it just shows how dentists stop them from messing up that tooth. J. Simmons states, "The acids dissolve the hard, strong enamel inner layer, called dentine, a cavity's development can be rapid and painful." which explains that tooth decay does damage the enamel that protects the tooth. There is also some other evidence that could help prove the central idea he's trying to support through all this information. But "Hard Facts" isn't the better option because he didn't state many facts and evidence about tooth

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