Wisdom Teeth

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Isn't is a weird idea that someday humans will evolve to the point where we won't even have wisdom teeth anymore? I wish I was a part of those humans because wisdom teeth really suck. I have been dealing with my wisdom teeth acting up, because I don't have the money to get them extracted. I will someday, but until then I just suffer for like a week and then I'm okay for another 6 months. But isn't it crazy to think that there is going to be a generation that won't have to deal with that pain anymore? Humans used to have more teeth than we do today and that included the wisdom teeth. It used to be an old wives tale that when you started growing your wisdom teeth that meant that half of your life was over, so when I was started growing mine at 17, I was a little startled, but obviously that is false because most people start growing theirs at that age and obviously they are still alive. The reason why humans have wisdom teeth and extra teeth is that before we had nice soft foods, easy tender to eat stuff, humans ate such hard and tough foods. The main reason why those back molars exist is so humans could eat plants and be able to chew up the plant membrane so it was easy to digest in their stomachs. I thought that, that was so interesting. But since humans were eating softer foods and evolving our mouths were getting smaller and there was no point to having so many teeth. One of the reasons why we have to get our wisdom teeth extracted is that our mouths are actually too small for the wisdom teeth and can really mess up the nerve endings of your other teeth when not taken out. They can also become impacted which means your teeth are preventing your wisdom teeth from growing and can actually really mess up your mouth, causing your teeth to move and squish together and can cause real problems later on in life. So I guess if you are a person with a big mouth, you don't really have to worry about your wisdom teeth, especially if you don't use the wisdom they bring you ;) What age did you start growing your wisdom teeth and if you did, when did you get them extracted?