Tuesday Tooth Trivia

This Tuesday we thought we'd present you with some fun tooth trivia. Here are 20 little known facts about teeth! 

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

2.  Each year, the 20th of September is an official holiday in China; this day is called “Love your teeth day”. Great idea!

3.  Elephant’s molar tooth weight nearly 4 kilograms and almost 7″ square.

4.  In Germany, at Middle Ages,it was believed kissing a donkey was the only treatment for painful teeth. 

5.  Ancient Greeks were the first to invent dental pliers

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

7.  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.

8.  Enamel covering crown of your teeth is the hardest tissue in your entire body.

9.  Most people prefer to use blue toothbrushes than the red ones!

10. Unlike adult humans, when a crocodile loses a tooth, another one grows to replace the old one. 

11. Originally, bristles of toothbrush was made of cow hairs.

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

13. According to 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.

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

15. Animals’ numbers of teeth are amazing; dogs have forty two teeth, cats have thirty teeth, pigs have forty four teeth, and the armadillo has one hundred and four teeth. 

16. In the 1800s, people who had false teeth in England ate in their bedrooms before gatherings and events at the dinner table. This unique Victorian tradition protected them against the embarrassment of having their teeth ‘fall off’ while dining.

17. Dentists would recommend that you keep your toothbrush at least six feet away from your toilet to avoid many airborne particles that results from flushing.

18. Even before toothbrushes were invented, people used their fingers and twigs in cleaning their teeth.

19. 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.

20. The Crocodile Bird flies into the open mouth of a crocodile and cleans it's teeth for it!. Nature's Oral Hygienist!