• Agent641@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      “You really shouldn’t be awake for this” - the orthodontist crushing my sideways wisdom teeth with pliers so he can rip the shards out individually.

      • TwanHE@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        We don’t do general anesthesia for most things dental related here in NL. But after hearing the sound bounce around in my head I wish we did.

    • Gonzako@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      that’s me atm. luckily they’ve stopped moving and I don’t feel any pain but it’s a breeding ground of the unfunny kind

      • TwanHE@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Oh this was a fast one, was back in the waiting room within 15m, 10 of which was waiting for the localised pain killer to kick in before starting.

  • index@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    Evolution didn’t make your teeth to grow like this. While people in the past probably had shitty teeth keep in mind that modern diets filled with sugars, processed food and all sort of junk are a cause of teeth problems

      • index@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_tooth

        “The oldest known impacted wisdom tooth belonged to a European woman who lived between 13,000 and 11,000 BCE, in the Magdalenian period. Nonetheless, molar impaction was relatively rare prior to the modern era. With the Industrial Revolution, the affliction became ten times more common, owing to the new prevalence of soft, processed foods.”

    • exasperation@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Evolution didn’t make your teeth to grow like this.

      Modern diets are just selection pressure. Evolution marches on.

  • judgyweevil@feddit.itEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Human mandible shrank a bit the last millenia, probably thanks to the rise of agricolture and easily chewable food, but that left less space for teeth to grow properly

      • roguesignal@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I think a lot of folks assume that evolution means “all the crappy stuff whittled out over time, and only the good stuff remains” when in fact I think evolution aims for “eh, they reproduced. Good enough”

        • frezik@midwest.social
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          2 months ago

          Creationist love to bring up all the wonderful things in the world. They tend not to bring up things like the recurrent laryngeal nerve or bot flies.

          In fact, I think they’re confused as to why science would even bring these up. If evolution is a religion (as they often claim), why would that religion point to something so weird or ugly? The answer is that evolution just is, and it does weird and ugly things sometimes. Our job is to study the weird and ugly things it makes while also finding a better moral system than mere evolution.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    Pre-anethesia, you mean. There were dentists around for a long time, but I don’t think you would’ve enjoyed being their patient…

  • RizzoTheSmall@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This ain’t evolution. This is science counterevolutionarily keeping our ancestors alive long enough to procreate who should have died. I guess it’s evolution in a way since we’ve evolved to overcome the evolutionary concept of “survival of the fittest” or natural selection.

  • pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    This little cunt of mine tended to inflame every other month instead of teething already. I decided to remove it, and I ended up spending almost 2 hours in surgery because it had fused into another tooth. Instead of coming out cleanly, it broke and a few fragments were left behind

    Doc said it was okay to leave it as it would be absorbed or come out again eventually. Almost a year later, and the little prick sends his regards by inflaming my face completely and having to rush to surgery again.

    Hopefully it was the end of that. Fuck this SOB

        • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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          2 months ago

          People generally have a sex drive, then develop an instinctual drive to protect their children after they are born. Of course, contraception allows us to sate our sex drive without it resulting in children, so you can choose to opt out of the evolutionary process before you develop an instinctual drive to raise children in the first place. Most people still have that instinct ready to kick in for a child that is not their own if such a situation arises, which is still evolutionarily advantageous for the group as a whole, even if it’s not for the individual.

          Of course in rare cases some people lack that instinct entirely, but that’s the exception not the rule.

          • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            2 months ago

            Yep. Very few people would waste all their money and tear up their vagina and lose all their sleep for three years, and free time for atleast a decade, on purpose. We have an evolutionary drive to.

    • edric@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      I get it, but man I can’t imagine being in the mood to reproduce while nursing an infected tooth.

  • Squorlple@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It means that humans developed empathy and the scientific means to help each other avoid natural selection. Intraspecies and interspecies empathy is the cheat code against natural selection. Certain ram species, for example, also were not designed intelligently, so as they age they may grow their horns until they penetrate their skull and kill them. Natural selection is most effective when it culls prior to the life form procreating. However, thanks to the power of empathy, we can abate natural selection by performing oral surgery on humans (ideally in our adolescence for wisdom teeth removal) and by shaving rams’ horns as they age. Ideally, as science develops and empathy spreads, we can come up with more effective and painless means to ensure everybody has a chance to live and be happy.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Well, see, your mistake is brushing your teeth and living past 30. If your back molars were properly rotten enough to gracefully pop out when the wisdoms grew in, and then you died before that one rotted and you couldn’t chew anymore, you wouldn’t have any problems.

    Literally.

      • MintyFresh@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Depends on where they were and what they were eating. Humans are really amazing in that we can eat almost anything that’s not a straight up tree, and we’ve existed across the planet in just about every ecological niche. I remember reading somewhere they could estimate the age of desert burial/skeleton remains on how worn the teeth are due to the sand getting in the food. But I’m sure no processed sugar is pretty beneficial tho

      • SGforce@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        Still may have lost a few from some bucking animal you were chasing after. Or your cousin chucking a rock at the *bird" he said he saw behind you.

      • Triasha@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Not all. Pre industrial humans where I live ate a lot of slow roasted cactus. After 2 days buried with hot stones the cactus hearts were caramelized. I’ve tasted it prepared in the traditional manner and it’s just syrup in a leaf. Delicious, and I have no doubt it was great energy for people that had to walk miles every day.

        Anyone that lived past 30 had their teeth rot right out of their head, according to the archiological record.

  • cattywampas@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This is what gets me about the sentiment of “humans lived for hundreds of thousands of years without toothpaste/sunscreen/antibiotics/vaccines/etc and we were just fine!”

    My dude, we were most definitely not fine. A lot of people died painful and preventable deaths, many of them children, and we’re around today because existing that way was just good enough to keep us going as a species.