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    Go Back To Your Weird Sex Pyramid: On Getting My Wisdom Teeth Taken Out

    If you don't read this funny essay about getting your wisdom teeth out, then the dentists have already won. (Presumably, they've won novelty oversized teeth.)

    A few weeks ago, I had two wisdom teeth extracted. First things first. No, I did not get any dumber. All the hard-earned wisdom I’ve accrued over the last thirty three years is firmly in place. You don’t keep wisdom in your mouth like a folded up emergency twenty dollar bill in a down-on-his-luck traveling salesman’s fake tooth, or a razor blade under the tongue of a teenage girl who is running with the wrong crowd.