Wisdom teeth have been around for millennia. Our ancient ancestors used them the same way we use our other 8 molars: To grind up food, which was especially handy before the advent of cooking ...
When chewing we have an almost direct application of the power of the muscles, as they nearly overlie the third molars. There is a vast difference between chewing and biting. In order to determine ...
1 Department of oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology, periodontics and oral radiology, faculty of dentistry, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. 2 School of Medicine, The University of ...
When my big brother Joe died two years ago at age sixty-three, alone on his bedroom floor in Greenwood, Nova Scotia, he had more than sixty tattoos on his body but no teeth. Years of anxious clenching ...