Wisdom teeth used to play an important role in the way our ancestors chewed their food, but the molars at the ends of our rows of teeth have become vestigial and they do not play any real role anymore.
While wisdom teeth have a bad name, known to be
the cause of severe dental problems, including severe decay, impaction, dental
crowning and severe infections and inflammations, about 30% of humans are lucky
to have no wisdom teeth or to have fewer than four. The changes that the human
diet has undergone over the last several thousand years have had several
affects over the structure of our skull, with our jaws becoming smaller. The
process has decreased the space available for wisdom teeth to erupt, that is
probably the reason why many people do not have wisdom teeth at all or why they
do not have all four wisdom teeth. Many anthropologists and medical scientists
consider the phenomenon to be associated with evolution and they say that the
process is likely to continue until wisdom teeth disappear from the human skull
completely, saving many people from serious dental problems, pain as well as
from the need to have wisdom teeth surgically removed. There are places that offer wisdom tooth extraction Skokie area as well as other areas as there is still a need for removal.
