Are wisdom teeth not as strong as our other molars?

Answer 1

QUITE THE OPPOSITE. BECAUSE OF THEIR LOCATION IN THE BACK OF THE MOUTH AND DUE TO THE BITING PRESSURE EXERTED, THEY HAVE TO ABSORB THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF STRESS.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, BACK IN ANCIENT TIMES WHEN OUR DIETS WERE MORE COURSE AND ROUGHER TO CHEW, THE WISDOM TEETH WERE USEFUL DURING THIS ERA OF HISTORY, BUT TODAY THIS IS A NEED OF THE PAST.

Answer 2

Wisdom teeth are just another molar. However, they often erupt slowly or get impacted along the way. Combined with the difficulty of cleaning so far back, this often means that decay is more likely.
They usually have smaller biting surfaces and smaller roots than the 1st and 2nd molars in front. They also tend to have thin supporting bone on the inner surface (lingual). Thus their support is not good, and they would rarely be used as abutment teeth in a bridge.
Their crown is often quite conical in shape, and when this is combined with the pressures they receive at the very back, they will often fracture after any additional weakening by a cavity.
I disagree that they are stronger in any form than 1st and 2nd molars.

Answer 3

I don't think so but in my situation they very quickly became much weaker than my other teeth.
Mine began to show up very slowly when I was in my late teens and I never had a problem with them, no pain, etc.. They seemed to stop growing in for a few years and I thought that maybe they were never going to fully emerge. Suddenly, they fully came in around the time I was 22 or 23 and then they IMMEDIATELY began to crumble!! I'm not kidding. Every few days a piece of one of them would fall off. I would be chewing gum and suddenly the gum was crunchy with bits of tooth. All 4 teeth completely fell apart within the next 2 years and I was left with weird holes back where only the roots were left. I actually did have room for them in my mouth because I had gotten 4 teeth pulled as a kid before I had braces so it's not like they broke because of pressure or crowding. Only one had grown in on an angle but it wasn't causing any problems.

I have no idea why those teeth fell apart like they did. All I can think of is that maybe they had been 'rotting' while partially under my gum line for so many years and they had gotten weak that way. Once they grew in, I didn't have a single cavity in any of them BUT they seemed to have gotten decalcified (which turned areas bright white) and then they cracked into pieces.

I've since had two of the root systems pulled and plan to get the other two out soon.

Answer 4

They are the problem is that we dont often have enough room in our mouth for them so they cause us much pain. But yes they are just as strong.