# Anyone else not have wisdom teeth? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 24, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290 "2007-03-24T05:10:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RedRosesForMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RedRosesForMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedRosesForMe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/1 "2007-03-24T05:10:55Z")
Without having had them removed, of course. The last time I went to my dentist, after not having gone for several years (damn you astronomically priced insurance!) I got X-rays, and the technician or hygienist or someone asked if I had gone to another doctor to get my wisdom teeth removed. “Noo…” I answered, puzzled. So she looked at past X-rays and, rather surprised herself, told me I didn’t have any. At all. Not that I’m complaining, I hear they’re a right pain in the ass. She said it was odd, occasionally someone will only have 2 or 3, but she’d never seen anyone who didn’t have **any** at all. Any other freaks of nature out there? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/2 "2007-03-24T05:14:53Z")
My sister doesn’t have wisdom teeth. She’s missing two lateral incisors, too. Ironically, I was born with extra teeth, and had to have oral surgery when I was a child because of the crowding. ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/3 "2007-03-24T07:10:47Z")
I do not have wisdom teeth, and the dentist who first noted this on x-rays was not particularly surprised. He said it occasionally happens, and jokingly added that it has been theorized that as humans evolve further we will lose our wisdom teeth, so I can consider myself more evolutionarily advanced than most. I also have 4 (as opposed to the normal 3) roots in some of my molars, which is an anomaly but not unheard of (I read somewhere on the internet that it is related to American Indian ancestry, but I have no idea if the source was reliable). What really got my dentist going one time, though, was that one of the four nerves in my tooth undergoing a root canal was coiled/kinked in a very odd way he had never seen before. He was a professor at Tufts dental school, and told me that picture of my tooth would be used in his classes. I get a kick out of thinking that even as I write, dental students somewhere may be gawking at an x-ray of my tooth… ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/4 "2007-03-24T07:14:35Z")
I’m the other way. I had all four wisdoms (just two removed so far), but only 23 other teeth. My mouth didn’t have room for any more. It includes one milk tooth which never got replaced. My orthodontist told me I had one of the weirdest mouths he’d seen. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/5 "2007-03-24T08:40:28Z")
I only had three. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/6 "2007-03-24T09:36:21Z")
My dad never had any wisdom teeth. Unfortunately, he did not pass on this trait: I had 3 removed, my son had 4 taken out. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/7 "2007-03-24T12:15:15Z")
Not here, too. ---
**Author:** ![liberty3701](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@liberty3701](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liberty3701)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/8 "2007-03-24T14:30:37Z")
I don’t have any wisdom teeth and I’m missing 6 molars: four on the bottom, two on the top. I was born that way, a trait from my mom’s side of the family. She uses it to claim we’re more evolved than everyone else. ---
**Author:** ![Hanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b3f665/32.png) [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/9 "2007-03-24T14:44:51Z")
I only had one, and it didn’t give me any problems until I was 33. I had it pulled after it emerged, (at my dentists office,with Novocaine), and that was all. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/10 "2007-03-24T18:33:17Z")
No wisdom teeth, and I was congenitally missing the adult tooth to the left of my front tooth. Worked out fine for me - I’ve never needed oral surgery (unlike my brother). ---
**Author:** ![yBeayf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e274bd/32.png) [@yBeayf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yBeayf)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/11 "2007-03-24T19:14:40Z")
No wisdom teeth here. My dentist told me he didn’t have them, either. ---
**Author:** ![RedRosesForMe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RedRosesForMe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedRosesForMe)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/12 "2007-03-24T21:20:47Z")
damn, and I thought I was special. But maybe this is a bad sample. maybe we are the next step in human evolution. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/13 "2007-03-24T21:30:45Z")
No wisdom teeth. Otherwise, utterly normal teeth in every respect, and in reasonably good condition given my age. It’s true - we are the next step in human evolution. I for one welcome our new wisdom-tooth-less overlords… ---
**Author:** ![SSG\_Schwartz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SSG\_Schwartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SSG_Schwartz)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/14 "2007-03-24T21:38:49Z")
I appreiciate the confirmation. I got into an arguement with an Army dentist about when I had my wisdom teeth removed. I told him I hadn’t had them removed he told my I must have because I don’t have any. We went back and forth for a few minutes, and I have been wondering since that time if I had them removed and forgot about it. Seems unlikely, but I do sometimes forget where I park, so I thought maybe. Sgt Schwartz ---
**Author:** ![BunnyTVS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BunnyTVS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyTVS)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/15 "2007-03-24T21:38:57Z")
Nope none here either. I hope I aint got any hiding and waiting to pounce, coz there’s not a lot of space left. Mind, if I’m part of mankinds’ next evolutionary leap… The human race is fucked. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/16 "2007-03-24T21:40:20Z")
No uppers, just lowers. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/17 "2007-03-24T22:11:46Z")
[QUOTE=DrDeth] I only had three. [/QUOTE] me too. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/18 "2007-03-24T22:20:52Z")
I don’t have any wisdom teeth. I also never had one of my adult second bicuspids/premolars, although a baby tooth there lasted until I was twenty-one. ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/19 "2007-03-25T02:37:55Z")
I’ve got one buried somewhere in the back of my mouth. It’s too lazy to do anything though, which is rather wise, because if it moved, it’d be removed. Runs in the family. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290/20 "2007-03-25T03:28:06Z")
I had one that grew INTO another tooth. Ouch! It got cut out. That was my only one. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-not-have-wisdom-teeth/397290.md?page=2)