Word to the wise – What no one told you about wisdom tooth extraction

Heather Ainsley ECB Publishing, Inc. The human body is an amazing thing. The average human baby is born with 52 teeth – 20 milk teeth and 32 adult teeth – all nestled together in the skull. Throughout different stages of a human being's life, different milk teeth are steadily replaced by grown up teeth as they fully develop. By the time an individual reaches full maturity, they will have 32 teeth: eight of which are incisors, four of which are canines, eight of which are premolars and 12 of which are molars. Four of these molar teeth are a little bit special, as they come in later than all other teeth, generally around age 20 or so. These are called “wisdom teeth,” due to their