Probably because it took a great deal of wisdom to take care of those teeth. We got it easy, we have modern machines and anaestetics. But imagine dealing with wisdom teeth 200 years ago. Extracting a tooth with horse pliers and no anaestetcs, oh my!
They had opium. It was so legal back then nobody really cared, I don't know why that's so rarely pointed out. I had opium to remove a really big piece of wood from my leg once and while it did hurt mightily I didn't really care.
Where is this sonic scalpel I heard of going on 20 years ago now? The thing is supposed to gently rock the tooth some tens of thousands times a second and so remove it both quickly and painlessly. ****ing Dentists act as if their patients are all made of money, and then use the same primitive tools and techniques that were around a century ago. You'd think they could be just a little modern
Don't know, but my guy was old school. Interesting aside though is that there is a huge vet clinic the next town down that was really playing up their laser surgery and its benefits for animals, but when I took my dog down there, the vet said I should just use my local vet for the scalpel surgery on my dog instead because it would be a shorter car ride home and the manual surgery wounds heal much faster because the incision is thinner than it is with lasers.
What do mean by impacted? What I meant by culture is the group of people eat better than we do. It's a simple matter of not having a right diet rather than some evolutionary trait. As a side note I still got all my wisdom teeth.
Impacted wisdom teeth (or impacted third molars) are wisdom teeth which do not fully erupt into the mouth because of blockage from other teeth (impaction). If the wisdom teeth do not have an open connection to the mouth, pain can develop with the onset of inflammation or infection or damage to the adjacent teeth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impacted_wisdom_teeth
They don't grow in until you reach the age of wisdom, which is apparently around age 20. So are you under 20 or just an anomaly?
They are called wisdom teeth because most people don't develop them until late in their teenaged years.
No, I just figure things out. Wisdom teeth are usually taken out in the late teens/early twenties. Just makes sense that is why they are called wisdom teeth. I have all of my wisdom teeth--they bothered me in my twenties, but now don't.