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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: Wisdom Teeth

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

By all rights there should be three sets of molars in your mouth. But it turns out that our skulls aren’t really set up to accommodate that many anymore. Exactly why depends on who you ask.

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:08.1

Hey, and welcome to The Short Stuff.

0:10.0

I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry sitting in for Dave.

0:12.5

So this is Short Stuff.

0:14.6

The, uh, I don't know, it hurts edition.

0:17.9

Did you have your wisdom teeth come in and did you have them removed? I had them removed.

0:23.9

Oh, okay. I had mine removed. Kind of at the, now that I'm reading this, sort of a standard time,

0:30.3

I was probably 17 years old. Oh, not to appreciate the sedation. Yeah, that was my first experience with that. And I was like, oh, wow. Yeah. That was the gateway drug. Yeah, I remember, like, just kind of looking around, like, trying to play it off because I, it wasn't connecting in my head that they were the ones who were making me feel this way. Like I was in public or something.

0:56.0

Yeah, very strange.

0:57.0

But yeah, we're talking about wisdom teeth,

0:58.7

aka the third molar,

1:00.4

which sometimes start to pop in there.

1:05.0

By the way, I'm very turned off by how many times

1:07.0

you type the word erupt in this thing.

1:10.1

You don't like that, huh?

1:11.3

I think there were like five or six erupts.

1:13.9

Oh, yeah.

1:15.2

So, yeah, it was not pleasant to read that over and over.

1:18.7

But I will use it once just to honor you.

1:21.8

Okay, thanks.

1:22.4

They can erupt from the gums.

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