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  • I want them to be rich, so they can buy me a chalet in the Alps or at least cover my geriatric wisdom-teeth extractions.

    Enough About Me. Now, About My Kids... Joe Queenan 2011

  • Uses range from ear-tube insertions, wisdom-teeth removal and elective cosmetic surgery to even more complex procedures like open-heart surgery.

    A Fresh Focus 2008

  • Targacept declined 1.59, or 17%, to 8.01 after the Winston-Salem, N.C., biopharmaceutical concern said a pain drug failed in a midstage trial for patients after wisdom-teeth extraction.

    Take-Two Rises 8.7%; 2007

  • A lassie in his head, and his dear mammy thought he was sickening over his wisdom-teeth!

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • This happens, when it does happen, in the case of people where the wisdom-teeth have not come up in early years.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • Cases have been known in women upwards. of eighty years old where at the very close of life the wisdom-teeth have come up, causing great pain in their coming; and cases have been known of the like phenomenon in men too.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • It is all Greek and Latin to him, those big words, and rhetorical flourishes, and theological nuts, thrown out for "wisdom-teeth" to crack.

    Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

  • But the wisdom-teeth spoke up for the others and said, --

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 Various

  • Miss Mapp appeared to recollect, and smiled as far back as her wisdom-teeth.

    Miss Mapp 1903

  • Such was Bryan Summerhay at the age of twenty-six, his wisdom-teeth to cut, his depths unplumbed.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

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