Talk:Wisdom tooth

No pictures of healthy wisdom teeth

Given this article is on Wisdom teeth, and not impacted wisdom teeth, shouldn't there be at least one illustration of non-impacted, correctly aligned wisdom teeth?

Not an unreasonable request, but pictures of abnormal are more common than the unremarkable. If you can find one, post it.Dig Deeper (talk) 04:39, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Just make sure they're within our rights. ECPBlue (talk) 14:26, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

You're right 122.163.244.211 (talk) 10:33, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

I just created a whole category for healthy wisdom teeth on Wikimedia Commons. I'll try to upload stuff to it: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Healthy_wisdom_teeth Roquex (talk) 21:40, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Soft/processed foods leading to underdeveloped jaws

This claim is made at the bottom of the history tab, but it’s citation (#29) is an Ohio state news pop science article which only very briefly mentions this. Since the claim seems rather bold, would it be better to find a more academic/reliable source for this information? Manderson22 (talk) 13:33, 15 July 2021 (UTC)

wisdom teeth pain

how dangerous and painful it 172.56.240.72 (talk) 09:14, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: ENGL A120 Critical Thinking

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 28 August 2023 and 15 December 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Cpdus0923 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Cpdus0923 (talk) 07:44, 23 October 2023 (UTC)

"relatively rare prior to the modern era" claim is dubious

The claim "molar impaction was relatively rare prior to the modern era. With the Industrial Revolution, the affliction became ten times more common, owing to the new prevalence of soft, processed foods" comes to an incorrect conclusion someone made from the article that is referenced.

The article specifically makes the claim that "third molar impaction became 10 times more common after the Industrial Revolution than it was previously". This means something entirely different than "molar impaction was relatively rare prior to the modern era" (the article does not make this claim).

Humans begin eating softer foods they make the switch from hunter-gather to agrarian societies. This is typically the transition point argued when discussing the theory of softer foods leading to underdeveloped jaws: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2018/04/paul-ehrlich-problems-modern-jaw “I’ve never seen a hunter-gatherer skull with crooked teeth.” The switch to agrarian societies occurred much sooner than the switch to industrialized societies.

Impactions increasing tenfold does not imply they were 'relatively rare' prior to the Industrial Revolution. It merely implies that they increased. To make the 'rare' claim, you'd have to go back further. CodingApe (talk) 08:05, 2 August 2024 (UTC)