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By all rights there should be three sets of molars in your mouth. But it turns out that our skulls aren’t really set up to accommodate that many anymore. Exactly why depends on who you ask.
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their word for wisdom teeth was Odontius Sophius. Poof. And that is the teeth of wisdom is what that means.
“the more you chew, that promotes bone growth in your jaw and it can actually make your jaw a little longer so that if your jaw is just slightly longer, you're going to have that room for the third molar that you otherwise wouldn't.”
“apes don't have impacted wisdom teeth, which I don't think we mentioned. Some of our primate friends have wisdom teeth still.”
“she's basically comparing getting your wisdom teeth removed unnecessarily to what we used to do with kids getting their tonsils removed.”
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