Pleasant Peter Perkins
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You are supposed to have acquired some wisdom by the time you get them!
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Radiographer
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i hope its a myth anyway as i had them all removed yesterday and im in uni still hehe x
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Xiomy
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They are generally thought to be called wisdom teeth because they appear so late—much later than the other teeth, at an age where people are supposedly wiser than as a child, when the other teeth erupt.
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scott m
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because you get them when your thus supposed to be more wiser
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Saber
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they come with age and time
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dj mikey
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no idea why they called wisdom teeth, mine all came thru when i was 19, and promplty rotted away in about 2 months for some unknown reason, something genenic the dentist thinks. they are left over from when we used to eat things like grass and had a bigger jaw line hense they cause so many problems with lack of room etc, i was a rare one that had room for mine they just rotted as soon as they erupted hense why they are no more.
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Richard F
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Because they mostly erupt at the time you are supposed to have wisdom and all the others erupt before you are supposed to have acquired wisdom.
Be grateful that I am not making any number of bad jokes here.
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dcparis2004
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No idea but I do know impacted Wisdom Teeth really hurt when they are taken out.
Perhaps it is the age of the person when you develop them.
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kitkat
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Probably because they are so far at the back of the mouth that its WISER to have them out.....!
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hobo
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Probably because wisdom teeth come in at a later age when you are older & wiser.
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MrsMac
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I got my first thorugh when I was 24 which broke my back molar, one at 26 was removed at the hospital before it did the same as the first, then an astounding 10 years later I got another one which came in at such a strange angle it infected my gum and inner cheek, and I was unable to open my mouth for 3 days ( hubby delighted). The dentist has x-rayed my gob, and there you go - the 4th one's lying dormant - probably waiting a couple o years til I hit 40 then WHAM.
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Lady Charlemont
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Have you ever hit your "funny-bone" ???
That just aint funny.
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