# Do you still have your wisdom teeth? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 14, 2010, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-wisdom-teeth/524954 "2010-01-14T18:14:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-wisdom-teeth/524954/61 "2010-01-15T13:06:24Z")
No wisdom, but I do have the teeth, yes. Well, all three-and-a-bit of them. The ones up top are vestigial; the ones on the bottom jaw are complete but they’re partially covered by the gums. Their presence may be the only thing about my teeth that’s never been criticised by a dentist. ---
**Author:** ![Arglefraster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@Arglefraster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arglefraster)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-wisdom-teeth/524954/62 "2010-01-15T18:52:18Z")
All four of mine are in there, but they never completely erupted. I can feel the bumps where the gums are covering them though. My dentist says they’re in their straight enough that if they ever do erupt they’ll probably be fine. I’m 30 though, so I don’t know how likely it is that they ever will. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-wisdom-teeth/524954/63 "2010-01-16T14:17:12Z")
No, I had to have all EIGHT out–Annie-Xmas, wisdom teeth mutant. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-wisdom-teeth/524954/64 "2010-01-16T21:22:38Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > This week I went to the dentist to get my wisdom teeth sealed… I have 2 wisdom teeth. The other 2 were pulled when I was ~19 and they started to come in the wrong way. Given his/her username, the OP may be interested to know that while my malleuses and incuses are intact, I no longer have any stapes either. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-wisdom-teeth/524954/65 "2010-01-16T22:52:36Z")
All four came in when I was about 13. Still have them at 42. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-wisdom-teeth/524954/66 "2010-01-16T23:51:45Z")
> [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](#): > > I have 2 wisdom teeth. The other 2 were pulled when I was ~19 and they started to come in the wrong way. > > Given his/her username, the OP may be interested to know that while my malleuses and incuses are intact, I no longer have any stapes either. :eek: They took out your ossicles? Why? Can you still hear? (I don’t actually know anything about ears, I just picked the name because I liked the sound of it). ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-wisdom-teeth/524954/67 "2010-01-16T23:55:05Z")
I’m 27 and there isn’t even an inkling that mine are ever going to come in. Of course, my last dental x-ray was about 7 or 8 years ago, so maybe something’s brewing in there, but if it is, it’s not serious right now. ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-wisdom-teeth/524954/68 "2010-01-17T01:03:06Z")
I had only 3. Two never came out fully. One was sideways and only poking through my gum a bit. Had them all out the same time. Years and years ago when I was 28. So long ago that it was done in the hospital, under general anesthesia (that sideways one required a lot of digging around…) and I went in the night before, slept over, had surgery in the a.m. and stayed over that night too. My medical insurance paid for it all. Not likely that that would happen now, huh? I went home with a prescription of some wonderful drug and slept for 2 days. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![sunstone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunstone/32/3372_2.png) [@sunstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunstone)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-wisdom-teeth/524954/69 "2010-01-17T03:43:05Z")
Only had 3, and of those only one was fully formed. They weren’t functional and lacked enamel in places. Out they came!! ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-wisdom-teeth/524954/70 "2010-01-17T04:02:37Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > :eek: They took out your ossicles? Why? Can you still hear? > > (I don’t actually know anything about ears, I just picked the name because I liked the sound of it). I had something called “otosclerosis,” which is a hardening of the stapes bone (it’s supposed to vibrate and mine weren’t, or weren’t doing it very well). So they took them out and replaced them with “prosthetic devices,” tiny little things that make a toothpick look fat and which are approx 4.5 mm long. I wanted to take the original bones home to use as potential holy relics should I ever be canonized, but _nooooo_… My hearing is better than it was before the surgeries (they were done about 3 years apart), but it’s still not great. I tend to miss ponsomants. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-wisdom-teeth/524954/71 "2010-01-17T04:08:37Z")
I had to get a few regular permanent teeth removed when young because there wasn’t enough room! ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-wisdom-teeth/524954/72 "2010-01-17T05:49:23Z")
As did I, **BigBertha**. Four of 'em. That’s when they dug out my bottom wizzies, they just did it all at once. Oddly, I remember nothing about immediately afterward. I guess I healed up quick. I was a good healer as a kid, I know…after spinal fusion at just shy of ten years old, the docs wanted to take me up to show me off to their adult patients as in “Look at her! She’s up! She’s moving! Get your asses out of bed!” Now I fear I would be one of those adult patients who want to throttle that kid. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-your-wisdom-teeth/524954.md?page=3)