In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
"Wisdom Teeth" Were Properly Named After All
By Janet Evans
Friday, Aug 22 2008, 11:52 AM
Those wisdom teeth….nothing but trouble for most people.
You wonder why they are there in the first place?
For most they end up being extracted.
Actually not everyone has them removed…I still have mine.
Maybe more people will decide to hang on to them if they have room for them in their mouths, but if not, that's okay too, since they can be frozen …
Frozen?
Why would we want to do that?
"Japanese scientists said Friday they had derived stem cells from wisdom teeth opening another way to study deadly diseases without the ethical controversy of using embryos.
Researchers at the government-backed National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology said they created stem cells of the type found in human embryos using the removed wisdom teeth of a 10-year-old girl.
"This is significant in two ways," team leader Hajime Ogushi told AFP. "One is that we can avoid the ethical issues of stem cells because wisdom teeth are destined to be thrown away anyway.
"Also, we used teeth that had been extracted three years ago and had been preserved in a freezer. That means that it's easy for us to stock this source of stem cells."
The announcement follows the groundbreaking discovery by US and Japanese scientists last year that they could produce stem cells from skin, a finding that was hailed by the Vatican and US President George W. Bush"
We hear about many different studies going on in the world, and some seem so useless. Every once in a while we get fantastic breakthroughs.
Read the article
HERE
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According to the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, approximately 50 million Americans will need to have their wisdom teeth removed before the age of 25.
The average mouth has thirty-two teeth, sixteen on top and sixteen on the bottom.
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The four 1st molars come in around age six and are called "six year molars". |
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The four 2nd molars come in around the age 12 and are called the "12 year molars". |
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The four 3rd molars come in around the age of 17 (age range of 15-25) when most individuals become adults thus they are called "wiser or wisdom teeth".
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