The month of January'09 was a troublesome month in terms of health issues , with most part of it keeping me reeling in pain due to something or the other -eye infection,arm injury and the worst of them -The " Wisdom Tooth ".I came to know about this only after some days when someone casually told me it could be your " wisdom tooth " .Till then i had thought it was some common ulcer which would be gone in a day or 2 .Now this wisdom tooth on my upper set of teeth is located at a position where it cant be located easily ( with no teeth posterior to it ) .They say it comes when you have acquired some kind of wisdom & the person is considered to have a better judgement than that of a child.I did acquire a lot of it in '08 or rather '08 forced me to know about a lot of things .Whether i would go for its extraction or not would depend on the amount of disturbance it gives me in the days to come , but one thing thing which struck me while i was going through information on it was its link with the Theory of Evolution .
Wisdom teeth are vestigial third molars. In earlier times, when tooth loss in early adulthood was common, an additional molar had the potential to fill in a gap left by the loss of another tooth. It has also been postulated that the skulls of human ancestors had larger jaws with more teeth, which were possibly used to help chew down foliage to compensate for a lack of ability to efficiently digest the cellulose that makes up a plant cell wall. As human diet changed, a smaller jaw was selected by evolution, yet the third molars, or "wisdom teeth", still commonly develop in human mouths.
Would that mean that since in the days to come the Jawlines would keep on shrinking the Wisdom Tooth would get less and less space to grow , eventually leading to a no-wisdom tooth jawline .Wish i was born a 1000 years later ! It does pain !
