• How much is the Tooth Fairy paying per tooth? Around $2 per tooth, according to Securian Dental Plans, an insurance provider. (12/05, Money Magazine)

• Top of the American teeth stakes in the poll for greatest looking teeth were Hollywood actors Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts.

AAP’s recent consumer survey found:

• 50 per cent consider the smile the first facial feature they notice
• 80 per cent are not happy with their smile
• Respondents were seven times more likely to have periodontal, smile enhancement procedures than facelifts
• Smile enhanced procedures outnumbered eyelid surgeries five to one

• 32 per cent of Americans cite bad breath as the least attractive trait of their co-workers.
• 60 per cent of people who don’t know that a sore jaw, when combined with chest pain, can signal a heart attack -especially in women
• 38.5 = the total days an average American spends brushing teeth over a lifetime.
• 73 per cent of Americans would rather go grocery shopping than floss.
• Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.
• A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
• Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum
• The number of cavities in the average mouth is down and people are keeping their teeth longer.
• People, on average, have healthier mouths than even 10 years ago.  Specifically, the decline in tooth decay was greatest among kids but holds across every age group.
• Only 40 per cent of young people age six to 19 had ever in their lives had cavities.  That’s down from 50 per cent a decade ago.
• Over the last 10 years, the proportion of people age 60 who’d lost all their teeth had decreased from 33 per cent to 25 per cent.
• Use of dental sealants, which block tooth decay on the chewing surfaces of kids’ vulnerable molars, was up 64 per cent.
• 30 per cent of kids had had at least one sealed tooth.
• 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.  This figure has not changed from a decade ago.
• Socio-economic status plays a definite role in one’s general and dental health. 33 per cent of low-income adults have untreated decay.
• More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.
• Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is different.
• The average toothbrush contains about 25,000 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.
• 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.

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