Keeping your teeth healthy may seem like a chore although it is very important to your health. We here at Devoted Family Dental make caring for your teeth fun! Here is a list of fun facts about your teeth.
1. Just like your fingerprints, your tongue print is different than everybody else.
2. Right handed people tend to chew on the right side of their mouth. Left handed people tend to chew on the left side of their mouth.
3. The coating on your teeth, called enamel is the hardest surface on your entire body.
4. Children laugh approximately 400 times in a day, adults average around 15.
5. Giraffe’s teeth are only at the bottom of their mouth
6. North American children spend nearly half a million dollars a year on gum.
7. An average American will spend over 38 days of their life, brushing their teeth.
8. On average, a human mouth will produce 100,000 cups of saliva in a lifetime
9. Without flossing, you miss cleaning 40% of the surface of your teeth.
10. A snail can have over 25,000 teeth with a mouth not much larger than the head of a pin; while a blue whale (the largest mammal) has no teeth.
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