9 things you didn't know about teeth
How is your mouth hygiene or your tooth knowledge?
How is your mouth hygiene or your tooth knowledge? Here are some interesting facts about teeth and smiles.
1. One in ten admit they regularly forget to brush their teeth.
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2. 6% of adults have no natural teeth. In 1978, the figure was as high as 37% in Wales.
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3. Earrings, business cards, keys, matchsticks and screwdrivers – just some of the bizarre objects we admit to using to get food particles out of our teeth.
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4. Teeth and smiles are rated the second most important attraction feature, after personality.
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5. About one in every 2000 babies is born with teeth.
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6. Some people never lose their 'baby' teeth and others grow an extra set!
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7. For his part in Fight Club Brad Pitt voluntarily had his front teeth chipped. After filming had finished his pearly whites were restored.
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8. When Ed Helms' character in The Hangover pulls out his own tooth for a bet Ed actually removed his own front tooth. He was born without a tooth there and had an implant which they removed for filming. Dedication!
9. In Norway there is a tooth bank which had 17,000 teeth in 2013, it aims to get 100,000 milk teeth and could become the largest tooth bank in the world.