Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Why these teeth called wisdom teeth?


Due to the general medical knowledge, the wisdom teeth are considered to be the adult teeth. The majority of people in the early years after the period of shedding of deciduous teeth, have their 28 teeth grow, and being already adult 4 new (wisdom teeth) grow.
You might have heard before that wisdom teeth is also known as third molars medically, the number of 8th from front to back teeth and wisdom teeth is the last one to grow, that teeth remains for all human's life long, they are located on the last said of upper and lower dental arch. The most natural age when the wisdom teeth grow is approximately 16-20 year-old. 

Due to the fact that in the human evolution, food is more sophisticated, and according decrease in the burden jaw, that leads to the stable decline of jaw bone, but not reduce the teeth size and eventually less than the position of tooth eruption, "the last eruption of the first Third molar wisdom tooth most likely to form Pericoronitis, which is the main reason why the abnormal position of wisdom teeth eruption. Wisdom tooth is the four third molars around the most up and down on the alveolar bone inside the oral cavity".
In a word, taking into the account the point of view of modern medicine, wisdom teeth is a natural human evolution. Original source

1 comment:

  1. Quite a history post that I think everyone on the internet should now. Cheers for posting it up. You're great!

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