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These teeth are associated with wisdom because they appear during the late teens or early twenties, when a person is physically mature. Often, the wisdom teeth may not rise above the gum line, but remain impacted in the jaw, causing inflammation . If this impaction occurs, or if they pose a threat to other teeth, the wisdom teeth may need to be removed.
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He said he was taking medication for abscesses in his wisdom teeth when he woke up with "a really strange feeling" in his chest.
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There is nothing wise about the way humans view wisdom teeth, according to many experts.
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That makes the drug less dangerous than using “Viagra or getting one’s wisdom teeth removed.”
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The presence of wisdom teeth suggest the Tollund Man was at least 20 years old when he died in Denmark’s Bjældskovdal bog in Jutland, but researchers think he was actually between 30 and 40.
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The studied adults had lost an average of 6% of their teeth, excluding wisdom teeth, over their lifetimes.
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