# I have three wisdom teeth **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 20, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793 "2009-09-20T03:11:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/1 "2009-09-20T03:11:20Z")
Why don’t I have four? ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/2 "2009-09-20T03:13:39Z")
If it makes you feel any better I have none and never have. Every time I go to the dentist they look at my xrays and assume my wisdom teeth have been pulled and sometimes don’t beleive me when I tell them I never had any. Guess it’s extremely rare to not have any wisdom teeth grow in. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/3 "2009-09-20T03:14:41Z")
You’re a bigger mutant than I am. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/4 "2009-09-20T03:42:54Z")
I don’t give a Scheisse! 😉 Ich liebe Dich anyhow! Dummkopf!😉 Your Freund Quasi der Modem ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/5 "2009-09-20T03:56:50Z")
I had 6 wisdom teeth, four regular ones and two little tooth buds above the top ones about the size of peas. The doc took 'em all out while I was under conscious sedation. I think it was a Valium drip. ETA: So to answer your question, just chalk it up to normal human variation 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/6 "2009-09-20T03:59:33Z")
My front tooth is the 4th. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/7 "2009-09-20T04:02:05Z")
Yeah, I had five. Now I have none. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/8 "2009-09-20T04:04:18Z")
I also only had 3, (now I have one). You’re not alone. It happens, no big deal. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/9 "2009-09-20T04:05:20Z")
If it makes you feel any better, one of our cats only has three of her fang teeth (are they still called canine teeth in cats? shouldn’t they be feline teeth?). She didn’t lose one in a fight or anything either. She was born that way. At least people won’t notice your missing wisdom tooth. Our cat looks like she’s always making a face of some sort. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/10 "2009-09-20T04:07:17Z")
One of my friends at work doesn’t have any wisdom teeth either, and neither does his middle brother [he’s oldest of 3 kids]. We’re waiting to see if his baby girl has 'em or not. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/11 "2009-09-20T04:33:27Z")
And some people think humans are not evolving! ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/12 "2009-09-20T04:36:12Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Why don’t I have four? I dn’t see that anyone has said the simple explanation. Sometimes they exist but don’t break through the gums. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/13 "2009-09-20T04:41:49Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > I dn’t see that anyone has said the simple explanation. Sometimes they exist but don’t break through the gums. There are only three in the X-rays. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/14 "2009-09-20T04:51:06Z")
Then you’re a variation on Cubsfan instead of a variation on me. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/15 "2009-09-20T04:58:40Z")
Well shit, I only had four. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/16 "2009-09-20T12:03:23Z")
Like Cubsfan, I never had any, visible or hidden. One dentist near retirement told me he had never seen a case of it before, but my current dentist said it wasn’t so rare, just somewhat uncommon. ---
**Author:** ![Vihaga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Vihaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vihaga)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/17 "2009-09-20T12:50:17Z")
Heh. My Dad doesn’t have any, and my mother had all four. I had two, my brother had four, my sister has none. I didn’t even know it was that uncommon not to have them, since I grew up with people that didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/18 "2009-09-20T13:08:32Z")
I had four, but two of them came in completely sideways. Before they were removed, I also had a considerable amount more money. ---
**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:** [September 20, 2009, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/19 "2009-09-20T13:16:05Z")
I only have two, which have never been extracted. That makes me half as smart. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793/20 "2009-09-20T17:10:26Z")
I don’t have any wisdom teeth, above or below the gumline. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-three-wisdom-teeth/510793.md?page=2)