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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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Just like your fingerprints, your tongue print is different than everybody else.<\/strong>\"tounge\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"young<\/a><\/p>\n

3. The coating on your teeth, called enamel is the hardest surface on your entire body.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Tooth-anatomy\"<\/a>
\n4. Children laugh approximately 400 times in a day, adults average around 15.<\/strong>
\n\"kids<\/a><\/p>\n

5. Giraffe\u2019s teeth are only at the bottom of their mouth<\/strong>
\n\"giaref\"<\/a><\/p>\n

6. North American children spend nearly half a million dollars a year on gum.<\/strong>
\n\"orbit\"<\/a><\/p>\n

7. An average American will spend over 38 days of their life, brushing their teeth.<\/strong>
\n\"woman-brushing-teeth\"<\/a><\/p>\n

8. On average, a human mouth will produce 100,000 cups of saliva in a lifetime<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"mouth\"<\/a><\/p>\n

9. Without flossing, you miss cleaning 40% of the surface of your teeth.<\/strong>
\n\"woman-flossing-close-up\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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.<\/strong>
\n\"snail<\/a><\/p>\n

Have more fun facts about teeth? Feel free to share them below.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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