Less people being born with wisdom teeth?!

[yonderson]

http://mentalfloss.com/article/30795/5-signs-humans-are-still-evolving

Number 2 on the list. This isnt the only web page that talks about fewer people being born with wisdom teeth. Any thoughts on this? Make any future/current OMFS nervous?

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[arkenstone]

Evolution doesn't work by itself. Access to good dentistry has removed the selective pressures to be born without wisdom teeth.

Also, "fewer" people

 

[shulk]

Sad but true, sometime in the next 10,000 to 20,000 years oral surgeons may find themselves with fewer wisdom teeth to pull...

 

[FOX_ONE]

Sad but true, sometime in the next 10,000 to 20,000 years oral surgeons may find themselves with fewer wisdom teeth to pull...

such a tragedy

 

[dp93]

i was actually born without the ability to develop wisdom teeth either. No expensive oral surgery visits for me. Actually my teeth are bit of an anomaly as some of my pre-molars are also baby teeth. Never developed adult teeth so they just chilled there.

 

[Bereno]

Lol, why did you post two threads about this?

 

[yonderson]

 

[irishmom]

Took a pan on my 17 year old daughter last summer and she did nothave any wisdom teeth. I had all4 but m husband onl had 1 and 16 (he had both ext about 10 years ago).

 

[DaleDoback]

Thanks for sharing. I hope she's ok.