Sorry about being off topic...Re: Wisdom Teeth in Fossil Record

[ELurio@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/19/00 8:57:30 PM, dinosaur@dinosaur.org writes:

<< Consumer's Union  (a not-for-profit consumer information organization that
publishes Consumer Reports) did a lengthy study on wisdom teeth which 
concludes,
basically, that we should leave them alone and not keep yanking them out 
before
there are problems with them.  The "yanking" part was basically invented by
dentists who needed a way to make more money. >>

That's right, we should yank them out AFTER there are problems with them, 
like they wind up coming out at a 90 degree angle to the rest of the 
teeth...The only reason people have wisdom teeth out is because there's 
trouble.

eric l.