Have you ever wondered
why at the age of when you think you have enough teeth, you still have tooth
ache caused by your wisdom teeth?
It is called wisdom
teeth because they appear much later than the other teeth, at an age where
people are presumably ‘wiser’ than a child.
If it is causing you
intense pain, an extraction is the way to go. As for myself, I’ve had the pain
come and go over the years. Sometimes with a fever, or just a tolerable
toothache. I still think that an extraction is not necessary (let’s hope it
will stay that way foreverJ)
Wisdom teeth is one of
a few vestigial organs in humans. A structure is considered vestigial if it is
not performing the function it was desired to do compared to other creatures
with the same part. Other vestigial organs in humans are the appendix, body
hair and coccyx.
The appendix and
coccyx could be surgically removed without any major problems. As for body
hair, waxing should it I guess. Although I should say that the eyebrows keep
the sweat out of our eyes but anywhere else it is quite useless because we now
wear clothes to keep us warm.
Reference
Edmonds, Molly. “How
Vestigial Organs Work” 11 August 2008.
HowStuffWorks.com.
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June 2014
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