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
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"Intelligent Design"
Fucking LOL
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"
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.
Evolution meant to tell you to get out of the gene pool.
Mine were growing directly sideways. I'm an evolutionary failure.
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
You had no pain killers?
With the pain killers! Found out that I'm very sensitive pain that day.
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.
Mine ARE growing directly sideways 🫠 at least the bottom ones
Oh yes, the Geological Faultocalized inside my mouth. I had four of them.
It's because humans in the wild would lose teeth by that time and need more.
my wisdom teeth surgery was the best sleep ive ever had
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...
I gained some semblance of consciousness and heard crunching before I drifted back out.
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.
Ancient humans had surprisingly good teeth. They weren't soaked in acid and sugar.
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.
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
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.
Until we got agriculture.
Born without wisdom teeth...
Not sure if that makes me more evolved or less lol
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
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...
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
I only had them on the right side. Not shure what this means evolutionary…
Evolutionarily, it only matters that you reproduce.
I can‘t even do that. The reason: Skill issue
So that’s evolution at work.
Your jaw got smaller and you stopped loosing teeth so fast. It's your own fault, really.
Can still hear the sound of them breaking it to get it out
"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.
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.
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 …
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.
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.
We used to have larger mouths, they've been shrinking as we evolved
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.
Gonna feed my kid nothing but well-done steaks and tree bark for the jaw gainz.