Paul Saladino· MD
there are a ton of examples whereby researchers considered vestiges of the past like our wisdom teeth or like our appendix as things that we don't need and you can take these things out with any rem without any ramifications but the reality is is that our wisdom teeth don't grow incorrectly and have to be removed because our faces don't develop correctly because our nutrition is all messed up during development in addition to that the mechanical stress required to chew the jaw to get it wide enough to support the tongue pressing against the top of the roof is part of the reason why our faces grow longer than they should and it's why our wisdom teeth don't grow in so the research there is also polarizing and there's a debate over how inessential our wisdom teeth actually are in my opinion they're very important and we're not doing enough to keep them around likewise i had my appendix removed in 2005-2006 and at the time it's this emergency situation the doctor the surgeon who's operating on me tells me right before we go in don't worry we do this all the time the appendix is completely useless well lo and behold several years down the road it turns out that the appendix is this place where commensal microflora from the microbiome harbor during periods of illness so that our small and large intestine can clear out the pathogens and then when this illness is over those bacteria remigrate and repopulate the small and large intestine in a commensal in a commensal fashion