Why Are Human Teeth So Messed Up?

Post by Noumenon72 » Thu, Aug 03, 2017, 12:31 AM UTC

nickjj wrote: post #92

synicalx wrote: post #25

It always struck me as funny that if you want to get into Medicine you can either do the normal MD course that covers 95% of the body (obviously, you may be able to specialize much later on) OR you can do the other 5% as a Dentist (and again, you may chose to specialize later). Teeth suck, I'm hanging out for "I can't believe they're not teeth" implants so I can stop worrying about the damn things.

Having an implant takes a lot more maintenance than regular teeth and no one really knows the long-long term results (modern implants haven't been around long enough). While an implant may offer a much better quality of life vs having a severely poor tooth (or none at all), don't be fooled into thinking you just get one and then you're set for life. They are considered an excellent option in a lot of cases, but you s…

Post by erikpukinskis » Thu, Aug 03, 2017, 5:53 AM UTC

digi_owl wrote: post #143

erikpukinskis wrote: post #135

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There is a corollary prediction: AIs will disagree. Too many people imagine AIs are somehow "perfectly rational" and therefore will never disagree, they'll just tap into a unified decision making engine and automatically integrate all of their knowledge. In order to integrate knowledge you need more knowledge. And in order to integrate that you need more still. It's turtles all the way down. If anything, AIs are at a…

If AI is to agree they need all the facts. And as we keep adding facts almost daily, there is simply no chance that the AI will have all the facts. We like to think of logic as 1+1=2. But logic is more like A+B-C*D/E=F. Where any number of those being either completely unknown (we sometimes do not even know we are missing them), or some wide range of potential values.

Post by Noumenon72 » Thu, Aug 03, 2017, 12:20 PM UTC

snovv_crash wrote: post #58

theshrike79 wrote: post #38

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Wisdom teeth spread their roots the older they get. Basically the roots look like this at first || and after they get settled in, they're more like this: _/\_ and at that point getting them out WILL suck. So if you have any family history of your wisdom teeth being f'd up, get them removed as soon as possible. My top two wisdom teeth were out before I even noticed the dentist was doing anything. Then I got stupid and…

I had the opposite problem: they were still very low down when they started impacting the other teeth, and as a result they were still rooted in the cranial nerve. I had to wait longer for them to grow out further and impact even harder before I could get them taken out without high risk of facial paralysis. As it was I still lost feeling in one half of my tongue.

Post by emmelaich » Thu, Aug 03, 2017, 11:45 PM UTC

matt_morgan wrote: post #164

emmelaich wrote: post #153

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Well, grapes do cause choking in young kids. Just the right size to wedge in the airway. But yeah I'm sure many warnings are overdone.

I don't doubt it! I just can't imagine that half a grape is safer than a whole grape for small kids.