alt Hacker NewsThe odd thing is in Humans is that if we loose our teeth the jawbone itself also starts to recede. Part of the process of installing an implant is doing either a matrix or a cadaver bone graft in order to overcome this.
We are, in some sense, meant to accept the loss of our teeth, likely because it impacts lifetime energy efficiency in some way that we're not correctly observing yet.
Perhaps the jawbone receding is just a way to make us less attractive, so we are less likely to procreate. Perhaps natural selection just wants us to die once we are out of teeth, and to remove our genes from the pool. It really doesn't care about individuals.
(I am aware that natural selection doesn't "want" or "care" about anything. It is just a convenient way to say it).