What Do Smoking,The Tooth Fairy,Not Flossing And Athletes Have In Common?
- Check out this dental trivia! Bet you didn’t know…
- Teeth in a growing fetus begin to develop only six weeks after conception.
- If you start smoking at age 18 and smoke one pack a day, you may lose 4-5 teeth by age 35.
- Today’s Tooth Fairy needs a lot more silver than she did in 1900 when she left an average of twelve cents.
- Athletes are 60X more likely to damage their teeth when not wearing a protective mouthguard during athletic activities.
- If you don’t floss, you miss cleaning 35% of your teeth.
- The average person consumes 150 lbs of sugar each year compared to just 7.5 lbs in the early 1700's