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I mean ones that arent causin irritation. What do you think?
A brief analysis of the immediately available subjects (8 posters in this thread) results in a 50% retention rate, so...leroyjenkens said:... unless you have a giant Neanderthal mouth, they'll probably give you problems at some point in your life.
It was pretty standard practice back then, yes.Proton Soup said:when i was a kid, i had a dentist that wanted to take everyone's out.
JoVieira said:Does that mean we are the wise ones? lol
Monique said:Another reason to have them taken out, besides impact issues on other molars, is that they can be hard to reach when you are brushing your teeth since they are in the back of your jaw. This can lead to caries.
DaveC426913 said:A brief analysis of the immediately available subjects (8 posters in this thread) results in a 50% retention rate, so...
27Thousand said:Mine never came in. I guess some just have a genetic defect where they don't get any wisdom teeth.
DaveC426913 said:A brief analysis of the immediately available subjects (8 posters in this thread) results in a 50% retention rate, so...
I doubt it. It just comes down to there not being enough room for them. If I applied pressure to my bottom left wisdom tooth, it would've probably jammed into my mandibular nerve. The tooth was completely parallel to it, lying right on top of it. There was a chance I could have permanantly lost feeling in the left side of my jaw from having that one taken out.I postulate that in some cases, people who are able to keep their wisdom teeth may actually use them more (keeping them from floating by frequently applying pressure to them).
You're evolving. I've also heard of people being born without appendixes.Mine never came in. I guess some just have a genetic defect where they don't get any wisdom teeth.
fluidistic said:I still have 4 of them. As I had to move several times from 2004, I had 3 dentists. The Canadian dentist told me to remove them all because they would eventually grow up and this might infect me.
The French one told me not to remove them because according to him they would not grow anymore.
The Argentine one said to get them all removed because they would grow and change the place of all my other teeth. I told her I don't care about it.
I'm still waiting to see who's right. I can say that they grew a little bit from 2004, but I never had any infection or a displaced teeth yet.
leroyjenkens said:I doubt it. It just comes down to there not being enough room for them. If I applied pressure to my bottom left wisdom tooth, it would've probably jammed into my mandibular nerve. The tooth was completely parallel to it, lying right on top of it. There was a chance I could have permanantly lost feeling in the left side of my jaw from having that one taken out.
Honestly, it's probably just the fact that some people have smaller teeth. Not that they're cavemen.
tiny-tim said:ooh, they've got to be somewhere!
they're probably burrowing through to your brain!
I know a woman whose two upper adult canine teeth are moving sideways instead of down …
so they've missed her mouth completely, and you can see that she still has her milk teeth where those adult canines should be!
Apparently her mother had the same thing.
Pythagorean said:On the contrary, my dentist told me that using a nightguard when I sleep will keep the wisdom teeth down because it keeps constant pressure on them. It's not the only factor, in her opinion, but a significant one. If you're talking about applying enough pressure to jam your tooth into your mandibular nerve, than you're going too far.
leroyjenkens said:Oh, you're talking about keeping it from coming in period?
Or keeping them down long enough to straighten up? I don't see why you would have to have teeth pulled when the only problem with them is that they came in wrong. I had a bunch of teeth that came in wrong and I fixed them all with braces.
That would be the conclusion based on leroyjenkens' logic, yes. I am providing empirical evidence that it may not a good conclusion.Pythagorean said:50% of people have Neanderthal mouths? :biggrin
It doesn't contradict it, no. What it does so is provide evidence that your otherwise-unsupported opinion may be wrong.leroyjenkens said:It could be 100% and it still doesn't contradict what I was saying.
They could also be Kings of the Outer Planets, whose teeth are made of diamond. You can't invent conditions then base your conclusions on what ifs.leroyjenkens said:Those four people could currently be having problems with them or could have problems later.
It is a significantly better representation than is zero - by an order of magnitude or three .leroyjenkens said:Despite that, 8 isn't a very good representation of 6 billion.
Evo said:My oldest daughter, Spawn of Evo is a shark. Her adult canine had come in, then to my horror, it fell out. An x-ray of her mouth revealed that she had a third full set of adult teeth coming in. She had to have surgery to cut open the roof of her mouth and extract the third set. We only let the third tooth come into replace the one that had been pushed out.
DaveC426913 said:Now that's evolution in action!
Evo said:My oldest daughter, Spawn of Evo is a shark. Her adult canine had come in, then to my horror, it fell out. An x-ray of her mouth revealed that she had a third full set of adult teeth coming in. She had to have surgery to cut open the roof of her mouth and extract the third set. We only let the third tooth come into replace the one that had been pushed out.
DaveC426913 said:Now that's evolution in action!