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[–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Human mandible shrank a bit the last millenia, probably thanks to the rise of agricolture and easily chewable food, but that left less space for teeth to grow properly

[–] Fluke@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

"Intelligent Design"

Fucking LOL

[–] roguesignal@lemm.ee 2 points 27 minutes ago

I think a lot of folks assume that evolution means "all the crappy stuff whittled out over time, and only the good stuff remains" when in fact I think evolution aims for "eh, they reproduced. Good enough"

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 hours ago

For anybody who thinks that animals in their natural environment are all happy...yeah imagine living for decades without any sort of dental care. Evolution is about surviving, not thriving.

[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 8 points 2 hours ago

Evolution meant to tell you to get out of the gene pool.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Mine were growing directly sideways. I'm an evolutionary failure.

[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

So were mine. They had to shatter most of them to get them out.

Passed out from the pain the first time I tried to eat post operation, lol

[–] EddoWagt 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago

With the pain killers! Found out that I'm very sensitive pain that day.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Yea I got dry sockets after, even after being really careful. It was a nightmare. I remember lying on the floor on the carpet drooling trying to eat mac n cheese.

[–] Kualdir 1 points 4 hours ago

Mine ARE growing directly sideways 🫠 at least the bottom ones

[–] Tomassci@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

Oh yes, the Geological Faultocalized inside my mouth. I had four of them.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 28 points 15 hours ago

It's because humans in the wild would lose teeth by that time and need more.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

my wisdom teeth surgery was the best sleep ive ever had

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 1 hour ago

I remember they were really worried that I wasn't waking up from my surgery that was scheduled from 7am to 8am. They also scolded my dad for coming in and telling "c'mon get up it's time to go" until they saw me finally getting up and groaning about it being too early. You'd think it was their first experience with a teenager...

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

I gained some semblance of consciousness and heard crunching before I drifted back out.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 49 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Well, see, your mistake is brushing your teeth and living past 30. If your back molars were properly rotten enough to gracefully pop out when the wisdoms grew in, and then you died before that one rotted and you couldn't chew anymore, you wouldn't have any problems.

Literally.

[–] ShankShill@sh.itjust.works 36 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Ancient humans had surprisingly good teeth. They weren't soaked in acid and sugar.

[–] Triasha@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

Not all. Pre industrial humans where I live ate a lot of slow roasted cactus. After 2 days buried with hot stones the cactus hearts were caramelized. I've tasted it prepared in the traditional manner and it's just syrup in a leaf. Delicious, and I have no doubt it was great energy for people that had to walk miles every day.

Anyone that lived past 30 had their teeth rot right out of their head, according to the archiological record.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago

Depends on where they were and what they were eating. Humans are really amazing in that we can eat almost anything that's not a straight up tree, and we've existed across the planet in just about every ecological niche. I remember reading somewhere they could estimate the age of desert burial/skeleton remains on how worn the teeth are due to the sand getting in the food. But I'm sure no processed sugar is pretty beneficial tho

[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 4 points 15 hours ago

Still may have lost a few from some bucking animal you were chasing after. Or your cousin chucking a rock at the *bird" he said he saw behind you.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Until we got agriculture.

[–] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 13 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Born without wisdom teeth...

Not sure if that makes me more evolved or less lol

[–] srestegosaurio@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Mine's are pointing 90° on the wrong direction.

They are dormant but I've warned that if they decide to start being funny I'll be fucked. :D

[–] Shou@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Depends. I had 4 at 90°. Only one hurt a little. They caused pockets, which are hard to clean (impossible by yourself) and can accelerate bone loss. I removed 3 of them. 2 by a jaw surgeon. They were creating a space bewteen molars deeper inside the bone, while also creating an opening at the top. Nasty.

Chronic inflamation of the gums don't hurt either. Best way to tell is by a mouth hygiënist. If your gums bleed easily while flossing, it's a good idea to keep flossing. Takes about 1-2 weeks before the gums calm down and the swelling dissipates. I use those tiny round brushes to get in between. If you start using those, m start with the thinnest wire. The metal should absolutely not scrape against the teeth, only the brush.

Taken years to form that habit...

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[–] Geobloke@lemm.ee 4 points 16 hours ago

I went to the dentist and he was looking at me all surprised and he said, you're jaw is so primitive, all your wisdom came through without issues.

A few years later I had to have an emergency removal because they decayed too much as I didn't brush that far back

[–] darkmogool@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago

I only had them on the right side. Not shure what this means evolutionary…

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[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 120 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Evolutionarily, it only matters that you reproduce.

[–] the_beber@lemm.ee 65 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I can‘t even do that. The reason: Skill issue

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 38 points 1 day ago

So that’s evolution at work.

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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Your jaw got smaller and you stopped loosing teeth so fast. It's your own fault, really.

[–] TwanHE@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Me some years ago

Can still hear the sound of them breaking it to get it out

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

"You really shouldn't be awake for this" - the orthodontist crushing my sideways wisdom teeth with pliers so he can rip the shards out individually.

[–] TwanHE@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

We don't do general anesthesia for most things dental related here in NL. But after hearing the sound bounce around in my head I wish we did.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

Fuck me, my ex-wife told me she wasn’t put to sleep but thank god I was.

Then again I had 8 teeth broken off my jaw because so maybe I was a special case …

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[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 67 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is what gets me about the sentiment of "humans lived for hundreds of thousands of years without toothpaste/sunscreen/antibiotics/vaccines/etc and we were just fine!"

My dude, we were most definitely not fine. A lot of people died painful and preventable deaths, many of them children, and we're around today because existing that way was just good enough to keep us going as a species.

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[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day ago (15 children)

Pre-dentistry, a bunch of your teeth would have fallen out before your wisdom teeth came in. There would have been space for the wisdom teeth so they wouldn't need to come in sideways.

[–] thisisbutaname@discuss.tchncs.de 72 points 1 day ago (4 children)

We used to have larger mouths, they've been shrinking as we evolved

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_jaw_shrinkage

[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 31 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

they’ve been shrinking as we ~~evolved~~ changed our diet

No genetic changes (evolution) happened. If as children we ate only very tough meat and lots of chewy vegetables - no bread or rice or potato softness - our same genetics would result in much larger adult jaws.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 6 points 18 hours ago

Gonna feed my kid nothing but well-done steaks and tree bark for the jaw gainz.

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