Infographic – 10 amazing curiosities about our teeth

1. Dental check-ups at least twice a year are essential for your dental health.
2. A treatment for toothache practiced in the Middle Ages involved kissing a donkey.
3. We only buy 16m of dental floss in a year. We should be using 112m.
4. A quarter of US adults have lost all their teeth.
5. Tooth enamel is the hardest part of the human body.
6. Teeth have been growing since we were in the foetal stage.
7. People prefer blue toothbrushes over red ones.
8. They are called wisdom teeth because they appear when you are older and wiser.
9. In a lifetime, we produce 380,000 litres of saliva, which helps to prevent tooth decay.
10. Tooth decay is the second most common disease, after the flu.

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