• The average human produces 25,000 quarts of saliva (spit) in a lifetime. That is enough saliva to fill 2 swimming pools!
  • The Statue of Liberty’s mouth is 3 feet wide.
  • A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 mph!
  • Jerry on “Seinfield” 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.
  • A tooth that has been knocked out starts to die within 15 minutes, but if you put it in milk or hold it in your mouth it will survive longer. See a dentist ASAP!
  • 100 years ago 1/2 of adults in North America were toothless.
  • Today less than 10% of adults over age 65 have lost teeth.
  • In the middle ages, people believed that dogs teeth boiled in wine made an excellent mouth rinse for tooth decay prevention.
  • 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.
  • The first nylon bristled toothbrush with a plastic handle was invented in 1938.
  • The first American to get a patent for a toothbrush was H.N. Wadsworth.
  • The electric toothbrush first appeared in 1939.
  • Egyptians used a form of toothpaste over 5000 years ago.
  • Colgate introduced aromatic toothpaste in a jar in 1873.
  • Colgate dental cream was packaged in collapsable tubes in 1896.
  • Approximately $2 billion a year is spent on dental products a year in the United States. (toothpaste, mouthwash, floss and toothbrushes)
  • According to a “Time Magazine Survey”, 59% of Americans would rather sit in a Dentist’s chair than sit next to someone on a cell phone.
  • According to “Consumer’s Report”, Dentist’s are among the 5 most trusted professionals in the U.S..
  • Jaw muscles can contract with a force as great as 55 pounds of pressure on anterior incisors, and 200 pounds of pressure on back molars.
  • 90% of systemic diseases have oral manifestations.
  • Regular dental cleanings can help prevent heart attacks.
  • Tooth Decay is the 2nd most common disease in the U.S. after the common cold.
  • Adults have 32 teeth, children have 20 teeth.
  • Dogs have 42 teeth while cats have 30 teeth.
  • Pigs have 44 teeth.
  • Armadillos have as many as 104 teeth.
  • Sharks have an unlimited supply of teeth.
  • Rabbits, squirrels and rodents teeth never stop growing. They keep them worn down by gnawing on hard foods like bark.
  • Even though whales are very big, some of them don’t have any teeth. They have rows of stiff hair-like combs that take food from the ocean.
  • Snails are very small but they have thousands of tiny teeth all lined up in rows.
  • Minnows have teeth in their throat.
  • A crocodile replaces its teeth over 40 times in a lifetime.
  • Turtles and Tortoises are toothless.
  • A mosquito has 47 teeth.
  • An Elephant’s tooth can weigh over 6 pounds. That’s heavier than a big jug of milk!
  • Fangs are not found in all snakes, but all snakes do have teeth, usually 6 rows worth. The teeth are curved backwards, just like the barbs on a fishing hook which keeps their prey from escaping.
  • “Long in the Tooth”, meaning “old”, was originally used to describe horses. As a horse ages, their gums recede, giving the impression that their teeth are growing in length. The longer the teeth look, the older the horse.
  • Aardvark teeth have no enamel coating and are worn away and regrown continuously.
  • The mammal that has the most teeth is the long snouted spinner dolphin with 252 teeth.

Famous Dentist’s

Paul Revere - warned American colonists in 1775 about approaching British.

- was first known Forensic Dentist. Identified a friend who had died in

battle by his bridge appliance he wore.

Doc Holiday - helped Wyatt Earp win the OK Corral Shootout.

Thomas Welch - his company was the first to bottle grape juice.

George Grant - invented the wooden golf tee.

Zane Gray - wrote best selling Western Novels.

William Morrison - invented in 1897 the machine that makes cotton candy.

- unveiled at the World’s Fair in 1904 in St. Louis and was

called “Fairy Floss”.

Horace Wells - first dentist to use nitrous oxide “laughing gas” as an anesthestic for

dental work in 1844.

Grant Wood - famous artist of painting “American Gothic”. The stone-faced farmer

was his dentist.

George Washington - first President of the United States.

most famous dental patient of Dr. Greenwood.

Had several sets of dentures that were made out of ivory.

His teeth were not made out of wood!

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