{"id":1666,"date":"2017-06-22T08:55:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T15:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2017-06-22T13:42:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T20:42:59","slug":"trigeminal-nerve-and-wisdom-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2017\/06\/22\/trigeminal-nerve-and-wisdom-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"Trigeminal Nerve and Wisdom Teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This x-ray was taken by a dentist, showing two \u00a0wisdom teeth (white arrows) positioned below the gum line. \u00a0 Most people have three permanent sets of <strong>molars<\/strong>: \u00a0the first set usually appears at around the age of 6, and then the 2nd set appears at around the age of 12. \u00a0The third set are called <strong>wisdom teeth<\/strong> because you are older (and presumably wiser) when these teeth appear.<\/p>\n<p>Also shown on the x-ray is a branch of the <strong>trigeminal nerve<\/strong> (orange arrow) as it passes under the jaw. \u00a0This nerve is usually numbed for \u00a0a tooth extraction, but because branches also supply the lip and face, you may also experience numbness in those areas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/wisdom-teeth-arrows.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1667\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/wisdom-teeth-arrows.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/wisdom-teeth-arrows.jpg 800w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/wisdom-teeth-arrows-250x122.jpg 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/wisdom-teeth-arrows-500x244.jpg 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/wisdom-teeth-arrows-768x375.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Grant_1962_654.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1671 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/trigeminal-wiki.png\" alt=\"trigeminal\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/trigeminal-wiki.png 800w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/trigeminal-wiki-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/trigeminal-wiki-500x500.png 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/trigeminal-wiki-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/trigeminal-wiki-244x244.png 244w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/trigeminal-wiki-65x65.png 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This x-ray was taken by a dentist, showing two \u00a0wisdom teeth (white arrows) positioned below the gum line. \u00a0 Most people have three permanent sets of molars: \u00a0the first set usually appears at around the age of 6, and then the 2nd set appears at around the age of 12. \u00a0The third set are called wisdom teeth because you are older (and presumably wiser) when these teeth appear. Also shown on the x-ray is a branch of the trigeminal nerve (orange arrow) as it passes under the jaw. \u00a0This nerve is usually numbed for \u00a0a tooth extraction, but because branches <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[390,388,119,385,386,389,387],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-dentist","tag-molar","tag-nerve","tag-teeth","tag-tooth","tag-trigeminal","tag-wisdom","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}