Reply to Congenitally missing teeth

Forum Index » Health and Medicine

Reply to "Congenitally missing teeth"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]We recently had our son's wisdom teeth extracted.  And we were surprised to find on the x-rays  he had one extra eye tooth - a third one -  that needed to be excised while he was under for the wisdom teeth.  I asked the surgeon if this was becoming more common, as in the theory that over time man will develop a sixth finger, was he finding more patients showing extra sets of teeth.  He said, no, that the opposite was occurring - because human beings no longer chew on bones, etc., our jaws are getting smaller, not larger, so he is seeing more and more cases of "missing wisdom teeth".  So, in other words, over time the jaw is shrinking and fewer and fewer people will have wisdom teeth to pull.  So your son is perfectly normal.  I loved our surgeon.  I'll see if I can pull up his name.  He has some very highend tech equipment that became available only in the last two years.  Insurance did not cover it, naturally, but it gives him, the surgeon, a 3D mapping of the head, which gives the surgeon a better sense of where to enter the gums to extract the teeth without causing nerve damage.  Well worth the cost.  And I could see the third tooth clearly in the 3D mapping.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics