Wisdom Teeth?

What is the purpose of having wisdom teeth and why do we get them

Wisdom Teeth?
hey amelia...ignoramous here...





wisdom teeth huh? well i will give you a lil inside skinny...obviously wisdom teeth are the final teeth to breach the gum lines around the age of 16-20





some scientist relate this to an appendix or gale bladder type of thing,...that we dont need them, but they are still part of human anatomy...





the skinny on wisdom teeth is, and this is right from my friend who is a dentist...that wisdom teeth in about 85% of situations do not have to be removed...its a mere moey maker for the industry...its like a gauranteed 1000 bucks for every man woman and child....what a person should do about wisdom teeth is to only have pulled the ones that are directly causeing pain, or some sort of off-set bite because of their size...





hope this helps...





i have only had to have one pulled...and i was awake, and it was a painful lil proceedure...but hey, you got to do what you got to do sometimes right?
Reply:Not sure why we get them, I know a theory is as humans developed, we needed more teeth by the time we were older, probably due to the loss of teeth from decay and/or disease. Some people live with theirs (I actually still have one, with three having been removed) and sometimes they are removed. Some people think they are like the appendix, they used to serve a useful function but over evolution, we no longer need them and so they are just superfulous. Most people need to have them removed due to problems such as impaction, partial eruption or lack of space for the wisdom teeth. If they come in without a problem, most dentists see no need in removing them.





From Wikipedia:


They are generally thought to be called wisdom teeth because they appear so late—much later than the other teeth, at an age where people are supposedly wiser than as a child, when the other teeth erupt. The English wisdom tooth is derived from Latin dens sapientiae. The same root is shared by German Weisheitszahn, Dutch verstandskies, Belgian-Dutch wijsheidstand, Norwegian visdomstann, Danish and Swedish visdomstand, Finnish viisaudenhammas, French dent de sagesse, Portuguese dente do juízo, Spanish muela del juicio or muela cordal, Italian dente del giudizio, Croatian and Serbian umnjaci, Hungarian bölcsességfog, Czech zuby moudrosti, Polish zęby mądrości, Russian зубы мудрости, Bulgarian мъдрец (meaning wise man), Estonian tarkusehammas and Hebrew שן בינה. There exists an interesting Dutch folk etymology that the Dutch word verstandskies is derived from %26quot;far-standing%26quot; (ver-staand) molar, and that mistranslations of the Dutch word (in which verstand translates to wisdom) are the root for corresponding words in other European languages.





Turkish language refers directly to the age at which wisdom teeth appear and calls it 20 yaş dişi (20th year tooth). In Korean, its name is Sa-rang-nee (사랑니, love teeth) referring to the young age and the pain of the first love. In Japanese, its name is Oyashirazu (親知らず), literally meaning %26quot;unknown to the parents%26quot; from the idea that they erupt after a child has moved away from home.



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