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passingtime85 says:

I’ll preface with, I’m 1/3rd Native American.

Now to address your question, you’re actually asking 2 different questions. I have all of my 3rd molars, the more technical name of wisdom teeth, but they will probably never emerge or “erupt”. I know this because they’re in my x-rays.

Some people are actually born without them at all though, or sometimes have different combination other than 4, or actually have. My sister has them, and they have emerged, and she’s fine. I don’t think my mother has them at all, she’s where I get my native ancestry, and I unfortunately don’t recall whether my father had them, but I imagine he did.

There are other oral morphological differences, that are more prevalent in some ethnic groups than others. Shoveled incisors, which my mother has, but my sister and I do not. Torus palatinus which I and my sister have, but my father didn’t, can’t recall about my mother. Torus mandibularis also effects different ethnicities with varying frequencies. There’s probably more, but these are the ones I can recall off the top of my head.