Mine were growing directly sideways. I'm an evolutionary failure.
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Oh yes, the Geological Faultocalized inside my mouth. I had four of them.
It's because humans in the wild would lose teeth by that time and need more.
my wisdom teeth surgery was the best sleep ive ever had
Well, see, your mistake is brushing your teeth and living past 30. If your back molars were properly rotten enough to gracefully pop out when the wisdoms grew in, and then you died before that one rotted and you couldn't chew anymore, you wouldn't have any problems.
Literally.
Ancient humans had surprisingly good teeth. They weren't soaked in acid and sugar.
Depends on where they were and what they were eating. Humans are really amazing in that we can eat almost anything that's not a straight up tree, and we've existed across the planet in just about every ecological niche. I remember reading somewhere they could estimate the age of desert burial/skeleton remains on how worn the teeth are due to the sand getting in the food. But I'm sure no processed sugar is pretty beneficial tho
Still may have lost a few from some bucking animal you were chasing after. Or your cousin chucking a rock at the *bird" he said he saw behind you.
Until we got agriculture.
Born without wisdom teeth...
Not sure if that makes me more evolved or less lol
Mine's are pointing 90° on the wrong direction.
They are dormant but I've warned that if they decide to start being funny I'll be fucked. :D
Depends. I had 4 at 90°. Only one hurt a little. They caused pockets, which are hard to clean (impossible by yourself) and can accelerate bone loss. I removed 3 of them. 2 by a jaw surgeon. They were creating a space bewteen molars deeper inside the bone, while also creating an opening at the top. Nasty.
Chronic inflamation of the gums don't hurt either. Best way to tell is by a mouth hygiënist. If your gums bleed easily while flossing, it's a good idea to keep flossing. Takes about 1-2 weeks before the gums calm down and the swelling dissipates. I use those tiny round brushes to get in between. If you start using those, m start with the thinnest wire. The metal should absolutely not scrape against the teeth, only the brush.
Taken years to form that habit...
mine grew in sideways too. I have had them all removed now, but my teeth are forever fucked because of them.
I only had them on the right side. Not shure what this means evolutionary…
I went to the dentist and he was looking at me all surprised and he said, you're jaw is so primitive, all your wisdom came through without issues.
A few years later I had to have an emergency removal because they decayed too much as I didn't brush that far back
Dude, more. 200% more as my wife and I sit her and suffer tonight. She’s getting it dealt with next month, mine rotting out while I wait to even get a luxury bone appointment.
You are the clear evolutionary winner.
Can still hear the sound of them breaking it to get it out
"You really shouldn't be awake for this" - the orthodontist crushing my sideways wisdom teeth with pliers so he can rip the shards out individually.
We don't do general anesthesia for most things dental related here in NL. But after hearing the sound bounce around in my head I wish we did.
All four of my wisdom teeth were impacted, and it took around six hours for them to be removed. Thankfully, I was unconscious during the procedure.
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Ah yes how I remember them chiseling my tooth out with a hammer. The surgeon I had was a bad ass.
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Evolutionarily, it only matters that you reproduce.
I can‘t even do that. The reason: Skill issue
So that’s evolution at work.
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… and that your children survive to reproduce
Otherwise we’d have no incentive to care for our kids.
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This is what gets me about the sentiment of "humans lived for hundreds of thousands of years without toothpaste/sunscreen/antibiotics/vaccines/etc and we were just fine!"
My dude, we were most definitely not fine. A lot of people died painful and preventable deaths, many of them children, and we're around today because existing that way was just good enough to keep us going as a species.
"They were just fine!" You mean that the 40-60% of people who lived past 15 were just fine until about 50-70?
Just because people still lived a long time doesn’t mean they had a good time living.
Pre-dentistry, a bunch of your teeth would have fallen out before your wisdom teeth came in. There would have been space for the wisdom teeth so they wouldn't need to come in sideways.
We used to have larger mouths, they've been shrinking as we evolved
they’ve been shrinking as we ~~evolved~~ changed our diet
No genetic changes (evolution) happened. If as children we ate only very tough meat and lots of chewy vegetables - no bread or rice or potato softness - our same genetics would result in much larger adult jaws.
Gonna feed my kid nothing but well-done steaks and tree bark for the jaw gainz.
That's right, my bad
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Are you sure about that? We lost so many teeth after the industrialisation of sugar production (machines and slavery) but I'm not sure how bad it was before then.
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I saw the X-ray of my own jaw and they wanted to remove my wisdom teeth and were asking if they hurt (they don't) because they are fully sideways and apparently pressing against a nerve.
I ain't paying for that shit. They don't bother me. I don't care how gnarly it looks; it's unnecessary and expensive.
They can actually seriously fuck up your mouth very quickly, and you often won't find out until the fuckery is underway. I had two removed when the dentist told me they might cause future problems, I had no pain, but now they're out I can actually feel my teeth kinda relaxing? I guess the pressure was there but I just got used to it.
My wife did the same as you. Ten years later her wisdom teeth, in the process of trying to get out, broke one of her other teeth so she had to not only remove them but restore her once healthy tooth. Much more expensive (and painful) this way.
I delayed it for maybe 10 years after they first started asking if I wanted to get them removed, then finally decided it was time about a year or two ago. The recovery sucked for a couple of days, but I don't remember my bill being exceptionally bad (I think my insurance paid quite a bit though).
I think my insurance paid quite a bit though
I only have the free insurance from the state and while the health insurance is excellent and covers every single thing I can think of, the dental side sucks major balls. Getting wisdom teeth removed is considered cosmetic (by the insurance provider), so they won't cover it at all, and pretty much any good dentist is expensive as fuck for anything but a cleaning or cavity fill without insurance.
teeth are “luxury bones” of course and require an extra subscription service
My employer uses Cigna and with them it's $1,300. They keep asking what my pain level is and I keep telling them none. When I explain to them why I'm not getting the surgery yet they seemed absolutely baffled for some reason. They tried to get me to sign up for a medical credit card offering zero APR. I told them does zero APR mean also $0 a month, because that's about how much I can afford. And again they acted like not moving mountains and stirring the oceans was a me thing. Absolutely fucking wild.
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Same thing happened to my dad when he was like 50.
Me: does nothing
Evolution: fuck you
Pre-anethesia, you mean. There were dentists around for a long time, but I don't think you would've enjoyed being their patient...
Fun (horrifying) fact: the reason barber poles have red on them is to represent the blood from when they offered tooth extractions
Doesn't it say that it is advertising bloodletting?
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