Dental Trivia

•The average human produces 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime. That is enough saliva to fill 2 swimming pools!

•A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 mph!

•Jerry on “Seinfeld” used Glide Dental Floss.

•Most tooth loss in people under 35 years of age is caused by athletic trauma, fights or accidents.
•Most tooth loss in people over age 35 is from Periodontal Disease.

•Children begin to develop their primary teeth 6 weeks after conception while in their mothers womb.

•If you don’t floss, you miss cleaning 35% of your tooth surfaces.

•100 years ago 1/2 of adults in North America were toothless.

•Today less than 10% of adults over age 65 have lost teeth.

•Teeth are the hardest substance in the human body.

•Ancient cultures chewed on twigs or roots to clean their teeth.

•Boar, badger and horse hair were used for toothbrush bristles but were later found to be abrasive and harsh.



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