Dental Trivia
*Keeping your teeth longer is another reason to quit smoking. According to the ADA, 42 % of daily smokers age 65 or older were completely toothless, compared with 29% of occasional smokers, 26% of former smokers and only 20% of never-smokers in the same age group.
* The defenders of the Alamo were the first to try chewing gums in America. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the Mexican dictator who fought Davy Crockett and his Texas comrades, introduced modern day chewing gum. His version of chewing gum was chicle, the latex sap of the sapodilla tree. Thomas Adams, an American inventor, used chicle as the base for commercially based chewing gums. This is possibly how they came up with the brand name "Chicklets."
* You will get fewer cavities if you eat a bag of candy in one sitting and then brush your teeth than if you slowly eat the candy a piece at a time all day.
* Unwaxed dental floss does pick up more plaque between the teeth than slick waxed varieties.
*Are you a wine drinker? According to a study at Guys hospital in London, the acid in wine was shown to erode the enamel on theeth.A wine taster had been exposed to so much wine that only the fillings were protruding in some of the subjects teeth. Any individual who tastes wine or drinks wine often should clean his or her mouth at least twice a day. Typically, red wine causes the worst stains in teeth.
* The egyptians first invented toothpaste some 5000 years ago.It was a crude mixture of wine and pumice. From the early Roman empire until eighteenth-century Europe and America, Urine was the main ingredient in toothpaste, because the ammonia in it is an excellent cleaner. Ammonia is still a main ingredients in many types of toothpaste.
* The defenders of the Alamo were the first to try chewing gums in America. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, the Mexican dictator who fought Davy Crockett and his Texas comrades, introduced modern day chewing gum. His version of chewing gum was chicle, the latex sap of the sapodilla tree. Thomas Adams, an American inventor, used chicle as the base for commercially based chewing gums. This is possibly how they came up with the brand name "Chicklets."
* You will get fewer cavities if you eat a bag of candy in one sitting and then brush your teeth than if you slowly eat the candy a piece at a time all day.
* Unwaxed dental floss does pick up more plaque between the teeth than slick waxed varieties.
*Are you a wine drinker? According to a study at Guys hospital in London, the acid in wine was shown to erode the enamel on theeth.A wine taster had been exposed to so much wine that only the fillings were protruding in some of the subjects teeth. Any individual who tastes wine or drinks wine often should clean his or her mouth at least twice a day. Typically, red wine causes the worst stains in teeth.
* The egyptians first invented toothpaste some 5000 years ago.It was a crude mixture of wine and pumice. From the early Roman empire until eighteenth-century Europe and America, Urine was the main ingredient in toothpaste, because the ammonia in it is an excellent cleaner. Ammonia is still a main ingredients in many types of toothpaste.
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