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deadeyedick
First of all every new member is forced to have wisdom teeth removed and for good reason that involve deployment and rate of problems. Where are all the teeth?
PaperMetel
I had my secondary molars removed and kept my wisdom teeth.
my third set of molars were in better shape I used to love chewing on ice unpopped popcorn seeds and frozen butterfingers ended up cracking 2 of them so when my dentist suggested I keep them I liked the idea. I mean seriously how many people do you know that still have them?
deadeyedick
reply to post by Bedlam
No soldier can be deployed oversees and have wisdom teeth. It proved to be a real problem in previous wars. It was viewed as an excuse to get off the battle field. Mine were taken without any pain relief or numbbing.
deadeyedick
No soldier can be deployed oversees and have wisdom teeth.
Liang and her colleague saw 20 to 25 patients a day, every day: U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, civilian contractors and the camp’s maintenance workers made up the bulk of their patients. Because so many of their patients were between 18 and 25 years old—the age when wisdom teeth often start acting up—Liang and her colleague extracted many third molars
This actually isn't true. They don't force everyone to remove them.
cavtrooper7
reply to post by 999zxcv
I took out the trash on these facilities on Ft Carson. Med waste is a pathogen,nobody screws with it.
Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
I managed to serve 4 years with a deployment, and I got out with my wisdom teeth intact. I served from 92-96, and I never heard of anything like this.
deadeyedick
It seems like the teeth should be piling up somewhere. For anyone that knows or has seen bad things forced to happen through rituals and dna then you may be able to follow my thoughts. First of all every new member is forced to have wisdom teeth removed and for good reason that involve deployment and rate of problems. Where are all the teeth? A question for someone in the dark arts is what type of curses or power could be wielded over an individual using the wisdom teeth. It just seems strange to me that we call them wisdom teeth but remove them every chance we get. Is this part of the dumbing down of us?
SayonaraJupiter
Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
I managed to serve 4 years with a deployment, and I got out with my wisdom teeth intact. I served from 92-96, and I never heard of anything like this.
Same. 89-94. I brush my teeth with baking soda and I never seen a dentist since I left the service. Why? Because every single dentist I ever saw expressed the tendency to tell me the same thing over and over "You should really get those taken out because they will bother you in the future." "Your'e not having problems now but they could start ingrowing and require major surgery."
All of those things those dentists said to me were wrong.
Here I am 44 with wisdom teeth that never bothered me once.
tigertatzen
reply to post by Bedlam
This actually isn't true. They don't force everyone to remove them.
When were you in the military? My husband was in the army and my ex husband was in the air force and both of them were forced to have their wisdom teeth pulled. The timeframe of each incident was years apart, and they were hounded about it until they had the extractions...literally threatened with UCMJ action if they did not comply. Both of them were told that every soldier was required to have their wisdom teeth removed and both of them told me that this was done as a preventative measure in case of deployment...a large percentage of people had infections in their wisdom teeth and rather than try to weed them all out, they simply made everyone get their wisdom teeth pulled. The first one was in 1991 and the last one was in 2010, so it's not like it was even remotely the same timeframe.
tigertatzen
When were you in the military? My husband was in the army and my ex husband was in the air force and both of them were forced to have their wisdom teeth pulled.