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Why is teething sore for children but not adults?

  • 31-01-2007 4:50pm
    #1
    eth0_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭


    One of my wisdom teeth has started to erupt recently and it made me wonder - why is teething when you're 25 not painful at all (in my case) yet it is agony for babies?

    Or am I just lucky that the wisdom tooth hasn't caused me any pain yet?


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  • #2
    Stark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,084 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    I think you're just lucky so far ;)

    Besides, adults generally have a far higher pain tolerance than infants. Remember those little things that would make you break down as tears as a child but that you shrug off these days as "that's nothing, just a little scratch".


  • #3
    eth0_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭eth0_


    Stark wrote:
    Besides, adults generally have a far higher pain tolerance than infants.

    Yeah that's the obvious conclusion but I wonder is there a biological reason for that - are your nerves more sensitive when you're a baby? - or is it mostly psychological?


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