Wisdom Teeth are not very Wise!

I have decided that wisdom teeth are not very smart. 

You manage without them just fine for most of your youth. Then they decide to poke their way through only to find that there really isn't enough room for them in your mouth. So the usual course of events is to have them removed (at a significant cost) and  you are way past the age of benefitting from the tooth fairy. 

When I mention to people that Jared just had his wisdom teeth out, it becomes quite a bonding experience as everyone shares their own painful experience! 

Anthropologists believe wisdom teeth were the evolutionary answer to our ancestor's early diet of coarse, rough food - like leaves, roots, nuts and meats - which required more chewing power and resulted in excessive wear of the teeth. The modern diet with its softer foods, along with the marvels of modern technologies such as forks, spoons and knives, has made the need for wisdom teeth nonexistent. As a result evolutionary biologists now classify wisdom teeth as vestigial organs, or body parts that have become functionless due to evolution ( like the appendix).

And did you know that about 35% of the population don't even have wisdom teeth? Rachael is included in this statistical annomoly.  So are these people less wise, or more evolved? Hmmm.