Born without wisdom teeth...
Not sure if that makes me more evolved or less lol
this post was submitted on 16 Mar 2025
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Your jaw got smaller and you stopped loosing teeth so fast. It's your own fault, really.
I saw the X-ray of my own jaw and they wanted to remove my wisdom teeth and were asking if they hurt (they don't) because they are fully sideways and apparently pressing against a nerve.
I ain't paying for that shit. They don't bother me. I don't care how gnarly it looks; it's unnecessary and expensive.
Same thing happened to my dad when he was like 50.
My wife did the same as you. Ten years later her wisdom teeth, in the process of trying to get out, broke one of her other teeth so she had to not only remove them but restore her once healthy tooth. Much more expensive (and painful) this way.
I delayed it for maybe 10 years after they first started asking if I wanted to get them removed, then finally decided it was time about a year or two ago. The recovery sucked for a couple of days, but I don't remember my bill being exceptionally bad (I think my insurance paid quite a bit though).
I think my insurance paid quite a bit though
I only have the free insurance from the state and while the health insurance is excellent and covers every single thing I can think of, the dental side sucks major balls. Getting wisdom teeth removed is considered cosmetic (by the insurance provider), so they won't cover it at all, and pretty much any good dentist is expensive as fuck for anything but a cleaning or cavity fill without insurance.
See if you can get it done under medical
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Evolution didn't make your teeth to grow like this. While people in the past probably had shitty teeth keep in mind that modern diets filled with sugars, processed food and all sort of junk are a cause of teeth problems
Evolution didn't make your teeth to grow like this.
Modern diets are just selection pressure. Evolution marches on.
That’s a wisdom tooth. They just grow like that, no sugar needed (I am wrong)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_tooth
"The oldest known impacted wisdom tooth belonged to a European woman who lived between 13,000 and 11,000 BCE, in the Magdalenian period. Nonetheless, molar impaction was relatively rare prior to the modern era. With the Industrial Revolution, the affliction became ten times more common, owing to the new prevalence of soft, processed foods."
Interesting!
Can still hear the sound of them breaking it to get it out
Ah yes how I remember them chiseling my tooth out with a hammer. The surgeon I had was a bad ass.
that's me atm. luckily they've stopped moving and I don't feel any pain but it's a breeding ground of the unfunny kind
All four of my wisdom teeth were impacted, and it took around six hours for them to be removed. Thankfully, I was unconscious during the procedure.
Oh this was a fast one, was back in the waiting room within 15m, 10 of which was waiting for the localised pain killer to kick in before starting.
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Pre-anethesia, you mean. There were dentists around for a long time, but I don't think you would've enjoyed being their patient...
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This ain't evolution. This is science counterevolutionarily keeping our ancestors alive long enough to procreate who should have died. I guess it's evolution in a way since we've evolved to overcome the evolutionary concept of "survival of the fittest" or natural selection.
Watched a documentary on the history of surgery and man, modern medicine is one of the things I'm grateful for.
Every time people say "it'd be nice to live in the 50s" or something like that, I always think: "Nope, I'd never trade modern medicine for anything else."
Hell, even just 30 years ago was way different. My experience of getting a root canal in 2024 was a million times better than when I had one in the ‘90s.
Science is pretty goated ngl
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