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Personally, I think the wisdom teeth thing is a scam. How many people are told they need their wisdom teeth removed? Seems like a hell of a lot. Is this really such an epidemic? What is it that's causing everyone's wisdom teeth to come in crooked or whatever that results in them "needing" to be removed?
I was told when I was about 17 that if I didn't have them removed they were going to push all my other teeth out of allignment. This scared my mom since she had paid a couple grand for braces just 5 or so years earlier and didn't want that money to go to waste. I figured that they weren't hurting and my body can handle itself just fine when it comes to normal evolutionary processes. Guess what? Not a single problem with them. All other teeth are still alligned, and all four wisdom teeth doing just fine.
I am fairly convinced that it's a way for oral surgeons and dentists to pad their pocket books by performing relatively low risk procedures that bring in a grand or more per patient.
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