In a few hours, I am heading down to the dentist’s office to get a wisdom tooth removed.
Not wisdom teeth, a wisdom tooth. Just one.
Why just one, you ask? Well, in December 1998, I had two wisdom teeth pulled from the left hand side of my mouth. In December 1999, I had three wisdom teeth pulled from the right hand side of my mouth. While they were doing the removal of the two on the right, they discovered that I had a third one on the right hand side. They told me it was a rare case, like one in a thousand people.
Over the years, a third wisdom tooth then popped up on my left side. It wasn’t originally pulled back in 1998. I don’t recall when it was, maybe in the mid-2000’s. It wasn’t bothering me so I left it. But I knew that I always had to get it done. That day for getting it done is today.
I looked into this online and extra teeth – in general – are called supernumerary teeth. The condition itself is rare and most people get them in their front teeth. To have extra wisdom teeth is the rarest of the rare condition.
Wow, lucky me.
When all is said and done, I’ll have had six wisdom teeth pulled.
Guess that means I’m having ice cream tonight.
I’ve had one of these as well. I had an extra wisdom tooth that started growing beside one of my other wisdom teeth (bottom right if I recall). It was kinda annoying because it would wiggle around. It was a fairly easy extraction because it was still small, but I still like to say that I had that because I was extra wise!