Mine have started to erupt a few months ago but it's only now that the pain is completely bugging me. :(
2007-11-20 04:12:15 · 10 answers · asked by kOOkie 1 in Health ➔ Dental
They are no longer serving a purpose except for those who make money pulling them. I once read an article that said those who do not ever get their wisdom teeth are more "evolved" then those who do - who knows!
2007-11-20 04:16:02 · answer #1 · answered by emtd65 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I went through oral surgery to remove my wisdom teeth at about 21. It is pretty important if you want to keep your teeth straight. As mentioned before, there is usually not enough room in the mouth cavity for the extra wisdom teeth, they are a leftover from a time when the human face was more elongated. Besides screwing up the alignment of you teeth, wisdom teeth coming in crooked can cause headaches and lethargy because your body may treat the extra teeth as a foreign body and attack them or infection of the wisdom teeth can cause toxic shock syndrome and blood poisoning.
2016-05-24 08:12:32 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All teeth have a purpose each tooth holds the structure of your jaw/mouth in place and the supports the other teeth to stay in place as well. You can lose or pull a few without it doing severe damage to the grand scheme of things, but don't ever underestimate the value and role each tooth plays in your mouth.
2007-11-20 04:18:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are debates on the evolutionary purpose of wisdom teeth. One theory suggests that the diet of our stone-age ancestors produced “wear-and-tear" on their teeth, resulting in jawbone growth and providing space for the third molars. As modern human diets evolved, jaw lines shrank and third molars remained in hiding.
2007-11-20 04:16:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
awhile back
like a few millennia maybe
people used to lose a lot of teeth
the wisdom ones would press in to compensate sometimes
also, they are good for grinding
2007-11-20 04:16:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have little use.
Their extraction makes a month's payment for the dental surgeon's Mercedes.
2007-11-20 19:35:00 · answer #6 · answered by Samurai Hoghead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To have a full set of 32 teeth...
2007-11-20 04:15:05 · answer #7 · answered by Mars 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have no useful purpose for most people. See a dentist and if he agrees, have them yanked out.
2007-11-20 04:14:57 · answer #8 · answered by Linda Fallsrock 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no purpose for them . . .
Get the removed ASAP. It is harder on you if you wait till your older. I know from experience.
2007-11-20 04:15:27 · answer #9 · answered by Chocoholic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
like you said, they're out to bother us!
2007-11-21 05:22:31 · answer #10 · answered by ♥LIZZY♥ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋