Schedule Appointment10 Fun Dental Facts
Is your family stuck inside due to cold weather? Quiz your kids on these fun dental facts!
- On average, a person produces 25,000 quarts of saliva in his or her lifetime – enough to fill a swimming pool two times!
- Contrary to popular belief, George Washington’s teeth were not made of wood. He had dentures made with a mixture of gold, hippopotamus tusk, elephant ivory and human teeth.
- A West Virginia prison inmate braided a rope out of dental floss and used it to scale the wall and escape in 1994.
- Elephants have the longest teeth (tusks) in the world. Their tusks can weigh over 400 pounds!
- Keep your toothbrush at a safe distance from the toilet. Particles that become airborne when you flush can travel up to six feet!
- The only cure for a toothache in Medieval Germany was to kiss a donkey.
- Just like your fingerprints, your tongue’s design is unique – no one has a tongue like yours!
- The first commercial toothbrush wasn’t made until 1938! Before that, bristles were created from twigs and bristles from animals such as pigs and horses.
- Although a snail’s mouth is about the size of a pin head, it can contain 25,000 teeth or more.
- On average, children smile around 400 times a day – keep it up!
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Courtesy of The ToothZone Network
