To Keep or Not to Keep: Wisdom Teeth
Jenny Lee
9 Dec. 2006
If someone asks me what my best physical feature is, it is very difficult to choose only one out of many! But if I have to decide, I can assuredly say it is “my teeth”.
Description of Jenny’s teeth – good alignment, no decay, white.
However, for the last couple of days, I’ve been tossing and turning in the night with violent toothache.
The cause of the severe pain is my “wisdom teeth”, also known as third molars which are the last teeth to erupt. This occurs usually between the age of 17 and 25 and suddenly at the most inconvenient times!! In Korean, its name is Sarangni (love teeth) referring to the young age and the pain of first love. Hooray for me!!
Today, my flatmate handed painkillers to me and seriously said, “What’s wrong with you, how come the wisdom tooth appears at your age?”
I had a good laugh at her question but all of sudden I realised my wisdom teeth are coming too late. Is my body malfunctioning? Or is my body so young and fit that my wisdom teeth are confused?
Due to the effect of the painkiller, the pain has decreased. I wonder what I’ll do with my wisdom teeth. Keep them or have them extracted? If you want to find out you will have to visit my blog again!
