With modern dentistry imaging, a database over a person's childhood and adolescence can be built. Using this data, a model of wisdom tooth erruption and growth could be extrapolated. Actually, all tooth growth could be modelled as part of the aging process.

The model should be able to indicate which tooth surfaces need to be carved and sealed to allow teeth to slip past each other and position properly.

As technology advances, more things should be able to be kept useful longer.
-- wjt, Aug 24 2013

The title of this idea gave me the heebiejeebies. I was afraid it was going to be an anouncement of some halfbakers death. //sigh of relief//
-- zeno, Aug 24 2013


Ah, the Halfbakery. Never Knowingly On Topic.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Aug 25 2013


My permanently-impacted wisdom teeth are pointed roughly 90 degrees forwards in comparison to their useful plane, directly at the sides of my back molars. This is very indicative, as my wisdom is also at least a bubble off of plum.
-- RayfordSteele, Aug 26 2013


Maybe the wisdom is to clench your jaw a lot at the all the little adult problems of life therefore pressuring the growing teeth into a more level headed plane.
-- wjt, Aug 31 2013



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