About Your Teeth, Your Smile, and Your Mouth . . .
The Tooth Fairy pays an average of $2.00 per tooth.
Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts were voted by Americans as having the best sets of teeth.
50% of people surveyed said that a person’s smile is the first facial feature they notice when meeting someone for the first time. That’s one out of every two people you meet.
80% of all Americans are not happy with their smiles.
One out of every three Americans say that bad breath is the least attractive trait of people they know.
The average American will spend 38 and a half days brushing their teeth (they should probably spend an average of 76 days).
Three out of Four Americans would rather go grocery shopping than floss their teeth.
Your toothbrush should be kept at least six feet away from your toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from a flushing toilet.
4 out of 10 children between the ages of 6 and 19 will have at least one cavity.
A toothpick is the number one item most choked on in America.
One out of four people over the age of 60 have lost all of their teeth.
Adults with post-high-school degrees had an average of three more teeth than those without a high school diploma.
Smokers remain three times more likely than non-smokers to lose all their teeth.
Visit http://www. ADA.org for more information about about good dental care and/or to find a dentist near you.
More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
The average toothbrush contains about 2,500 bristles grouped into about 40 tufts per toothbrush. The tufts are folded over a metal staple and forced onto pre-cored holes in the head and fused into the head with heat. The handle is made of at least two materials, usually plastic and rubber. The grips used for the handle is: precision, power, spoon, oblique and distal oblique. AGD Impact 2/2003
The average woman smiles about 62 times a day!
A man? Only 8!
Kids laugh around 400 times a day.
Grown-ups just 15 . . . :-(
Smilers in school yearbooks are more likely to have successful careers and marriages than poker faced peers.
According to a 1997 Gallup Poll, dentistry is the fifth most trusted profession in America. Another recent Gallup Poll indicated that dentists generally get high marks from consumers for their interpersonal skills and delivery of quality care.
A survey by Louis Harris and Associates reported that 83 percent of American adults were very satisfied with services received from their dentists. A recent Gallup Poll also reported that 92 percent or the respondents stated that they would recommend their dentist to someone else. —IDF Joseph Chamberlain, D.D.S.
Tooth decay remains the most common chronic disease among children ages 5-17 with 59% affected.
More than 51 million hours of school are lost each year by children due to dental related illness.
Employed adults lose more than 164 million hours of work each year due to oral health problems or dental visits.
Just 40% of children in poor or near-poor poverty level had a preventive dental visit in the past year.
44% of dental care expenditures are paid out-of-pocket.
Source: Issue Briefs on Challenges for the 21st Century: Chronic and Disabling Conditions
How people take care of their mouths is often a reflection about how they feel about themselves. At birth the only fully developed organ is the tongue. It is needed for sucking. For the first two months of life our mouth is our primary organ. We use for survival, expressing ourselves and to explore our new world. consequently it is very significant in our unconscious. Because of this it is my opinion that how we take care of our mouths is a reflection of how we feel about ourselves. People who feel good about themselves take good care of their mouth and people who have a poor self image generally do not take good care of their mouth.
— Marvin Mansky
