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[quote=Anonymous]Everyone's come in differently.

I was very late in getting all my adult teeth—I was still losing baby teeth as a sophomore in high school, and when I went off to college there was no sign of any wisdom teeth.

The first one came in when I was about 23 and the others over the next five or six years. They were straight and I had tons of room, and initially dentists told me not to worry about them... I had never had a cavity in my life (still haven't wiht my normal teeth) but my wisdom teeth were absurdly bad. The first crumbled while I was eating a pickle and the others followed in turn. The first was pulled by a regular dentist—it was straight and easily accessed and I had no dental insurance so I told him I wouldn't be going to an oral surgeon and he said "eff it, I was in the navy, I can do this!" and pulled it for $90.

The others were done by a proper oral surgeon when I was about 30 because I was having insane headaches, and it was because the roots had grown so long they had become entwined with a nerve—when my wisdom teeth hurt (because they were in terrible shape) I got insane headaches, and when I got headaches, my teeth hurt. Allergy season was excruciating.

Anyway, the point is that people get them at all different times, and even if you have room and they're straight they may be of different quality (my dentist said my regular are so good because I developed them while getting fluoride treatment and my wisdom teeth are so bad because I was in college drinking beer and the occasional bottle of non-fluoridated water when they developed), or affect nerves.[/quote]

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