Dolphins use their teeth to grasp only, not to chew, as dolphins’ jaws have no muscles.

Each year, the 20th of September is an official holiday in China; this day is called “Love your teeth day”.
Great people, aren’t they?

An elephant’s molar tooth weighs nearly 4 kilograms and is almost 7 square inches.

In Germany, in the Middle Ages, kissing a donkey was the only treatment for painful teeth.

Ancient Greeks were the first to invent dental pliers.

In the United States, the first woman to get a dental degree was Lucy Hobbs,
from Ohio college of Dental Surgery in 1866.

You can actually produce more than ten thousand gallons of saliva during your entire life.

You consume about 26 calories of your total body calories in a one minute kiss.

Sharks have three rows of sharp teeth in both of their jaws; actually,
a shark can change almost forty sets of teeth in its entire life.

The enamel covering the crown of your teeth is the hardest tissue in your entire body.

Most people prefer to use blue toothbrushes than red ones!

Unlike humans, when a crocodile loses a tooth, another one grows to replace the old one.
Really, it is a natural born killer.

Your toothbrush contains approximately 2,500 bristles grouped in forty tufts

Originally, the bristles of a toothbrush were made of cow hairs.

Dental caries is the most commonly occurring chronic disease among children.

The first commercial dental floss was made in the year of 1882.

Ninety percent of all systemic diseases reveal oral cavity manifestations.

According to the Guinness World Records 2002, Sir Isaac Newton had the most valuable tooth of all times; his tooth was sold in London for $3,633.00 in 1816. Furthermore, this tooth was put in a ring.

To satisfy the Americans’ sweet tooth, the United States had spent more than 21 million dollars on candy in 2001. Can you believe that this is more than the gross national products of Costa Rica, Lithuania, and Mozambique combined?!!!

Your dental plaque contains more than three hundred species of bacteria.

Animals’ numbers of teeth are amazing; dogs have 42 teeth, cats have 30 teeth, pigs have 44 teeth, and the armadillo has 104 teeth.

As a direct result of water fluoridation and over-the-counter fluoride products, half of the children entering first grade today have never had a single cavity, compared with 36% in 1980 and 28% in the early 1970s. (Source: American Dental Association)

If you want to keep all your teeth as you age, it helps to live in Hawaii and to be a non-smoker, according to a 1999 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Only 14% of people 65 or older who live in Hawaii are completely toothless, a condition known as Edentulism. In contrast, at least 48% of people of the same age in West Virginia have lost all their teeth, according to the survey of more than 27,000 people in 46 states.

Keeping your teeth longer is another reason to quit smoking. According to the ADA, 42% of daily smokers age 65 or older were completely toothless, compared with 29% of occasional smokers, 26% of former smokers and only 20% of never-smokers in the same age group.

Sugar is not the main enemy for teeth anymore. Americans eat too much, too often and the habit of "day-snacking" is causing more dental disease than the sugar content of the food being eaten. This is according to Warren Karp, D.M.D., who is also a licensed dietitician and director of the Nutrition Consult Service at The Medical College of Georgia Dental School.

The defenders of the Alamo were the first to try chewing gum in America. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the Mexican dictator who fought Davy Crockett and his Texas comrades, introduced modern day chewing gum. His version of chewing gum was chicle, the latex sap of the sapodilla tree. Thomas Adams, an American inventor, used chicle as the base for commercially based chewing gums. This is possibly how they came up with the brand name "Chicklets."

George Washington wore dentures because he had lost one tooth after another to extraction. He suffered from toothaches all his adult life, and his famous quick temper may have been the result of this pain. By the time of his inauguration in 1790, Washington had only one tooth, his lower left bicuspid. A hole in his lower denture allowed this natural tooth to stick out. The dentures were not made of wood (as common myth goes). They were made of ivory.
When it was time for Washington to sit for his presidential painting, the artist, Gilbert Stuart, thought that his dentures were too short, making his cheeks and lips look sunken. He padded Washington’s cheeks and lips with cotton to restore the natural lines to his face. But instead of looking better, Washington has an overstuffed, grandmotherly appearance in his portrait.

You will get fewer cavities if you eat a bag of candy in one sitting and then brush your teeth than if you slowly eat the candy a piece at a time all day.

Unwaxed dental floss does pick up more plaque between the teeth than slick waxed varieties.

The Egyptians first invented toothpaste some 5,000 years ago. It was a crude mixture of wine and pumice. From the early Roman Empire until eighteenth-century Europe and America, urine was a main ingredient in toothpaste, because the ammonia in it is an excellent cleaner. Ammonia is still a main ingredient in many types of toothpaste.

The Chinese are credited with inventing the first toothbrushes in the late 1400s. The bristles were made of hog bristles, which were highly effective and popular. The invention of nylon replaced them.

Mao Zedong, like many Chinese of his time, refused to brush his teeth. Instead, he rinsed his mouth with tea and chewed the leaves. Why brush? "Does a tiger brush his teeth?" argued Mao. Chairman Mao also loved to chain-smoke English cigarettes. When his doctor asked him to cut down, he explained, "Smoking is also a form of deep-breathing exercise, don’t you think?"

Mick Jagger had an emerald chip put in the middle of his upper right incisor, but people thought it was spinach. He changed it to a ruby until he got tired of people discussing the drop of blood on his tooth. Jagger finally settled on a diamond.

In dentistry, a mulberry molar is a tooth with more than the usual four cusps.

False teeth are often radioactive. Approximately 1 million Americans wear some form of denture; half of these dentures are made of a porcelain compound laced with minute amounts of uranium to stimulate fluorescence. Without the uranium additive, the dentures would be a dull green color when seen under artificial light.

Are you a wine drinker? According to a study at Guys Hospital in London, the acid in wine was shown to erode the enamel on teeth. A wine taster had been exposed to so much wine that only the fillings were protruding in some of the subjects’ teeth. Any individual who tastes wine or drinks wine often should clean his or her mouth at least twice a day. Typically, red wine causes the worst stains on teeth.

Routine dental radiographs may be an effective tool in preventing strokes, according to researchers at the University of Buffalo. Stroke victims usually receive no warning of the impending stroke, but dental radiographs can help spot potentially dangerous calcium buildups in the carotid arteries near both ends of the jawbone. These buildups can choke off the blood to the brain and are a major cause of strokes.

Have you ever wished that your dentist would turn up the music while he/she is drilling your tooth? The American Dental Association recommends that patients listen to music in the dentist’s office as a form of distraction. A combination of music and an anesthetic during dental procedures can reduce the patients’ blood pressure and pulse rate more than an anesthetic alone. It has also been noted that patients who listen to music at the dentist office tend to have lower levels of stress-related hormones. Many dentists are aware of this anxiety-reliever and provide their patients with headphones.

Certain cheeses, including aged cheddar, Swiss and Monterey Jack, have been found to protect teeth from decay. Ask Dr. Gray about her published Research at the American Dental Association.

An obscure Mexican plant, the Lippa dulcis, has been found to be about 1,000 times sweeter than table sugar, doesn’t cause tooth decay, and in the distant future, could serve as the source of a low-calorie sweetener.

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