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Wisdom teeth.\u00a0 Well, I still have a couple.\u00a0 A while back I had the first two yanked out, but the ensuing weekend and week made me hold off on the other two.\u00a0 Until now.\u00a0 Faced with the imminent loss of dental insurance, or at least a changed plan, I asked my dentist what he thought I could do now to help my dental health long term.\u00a0 The wisdom teeth, he said, out.<\/p>\n
So, this morning out they come.\u00a0 I woke up early this morning, a bit nervous I guess.\u00a0 My goal, in general, is to stay away from the medical profession (except for my lovely wife), but once in a while it’s unavoidable.\u00a0 Like today.<\/p>\n
Wondering about wisdom teeth, I took a quick poke around the web and found a dentistry site that identified wisdom teeth as vestigial.\u00a0 Interesting.\u00a0 Seems at one point our diet consisted of much more abrasive material which needed the third molar to help grind it down.\u00a0 Back then we didn’t need extra fiber in the diet, I’m guessing.\u00a0 Now jaws stay fuller*, our diet’s smoother and we don’t create space by losing permanent teeth, thanks to modern dentistry.<\/p>\n
Around 9:15 the procedure begins.\u00a0 Oh, boy.<\/p>\n
*Until quite recently<\/a>, our diet included mostly very coarse food, as well as impurities such as dirt and sand. This coarseness would abrade teeth so significantly that they would take up less space in the jaw.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samhain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Thanksgiving Moon Wisdom teeth.\u00a0 Well, I still have a couple.\u00a0 A while back I had the first two yanked out, but the ensuing weekend and week made me hold off on the other two.\u00a0 Until now.\u00a0 Faced with the imminent loss of dental insurance, or at least a changed plan, I asked … Continue reading The Better Part of Wisdom?<\/span>