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Brenna Hassett: Why We Are Weird

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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The Importance of Wisdom Teeth

The reason why we have such a mismatch seems to be that we don't use our jaws in the same way as our jaws were designed to be used. And your whole jaw is there to basically support your teeth and everything about your mouth is a finely tuned system, ready to respond to what you ask it to do. So if we don't ask our jaws to pull heavy loads, to do lots of chewing, very fibrous food, things that aren't like pot noodle and easy to eat, then our jaws don't grow as much. That's why we have wisdom tooth surgery. I don't think anyone knew when they were inventing carbs, you know, and bread, that

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