10 Crazy & Random Dental Facts for Your Kids!
Fun Dental Facts! Fun Dentist! What more could you ask for?
- The average human produces 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime. That is enough spit to fill two swimming pools!
- You should not keep your toothbrush near a toilet. The airborne particles from the flush can travel up to a distance of 6 feet. Yuck!
- George Washington never had wooden teeth. His dentures were made from Gold, hippopotamus tusk, elephant ivory, and human teeth!!
- In 1994, a prison inmate in West Virginia braided dental floss into a rope, scaled the wall, and escaped.
- The longest teeth in the world are actually elephant tusks – sometimes weighing over 400 pounds.
- The first toothbrush with bristles was manufactured in China in 1498. Bristles from hogs, horses, and badgers were used. The first commercial toothbrush was made in 1938.
- In Medieval Germany, kissing a donkey was the only cure for toothache.
- Tongues are similar to our fingers – like fingerprints, the design of your tongue is 100% unique.
- It seems children have the right idea about smiling…they smile about 400 times per day.
- A snail’s mouth is no larger than the head of a pin but can contain over 25,000 teeth!
