{"id":1016,"date":"2019-08-26T14:48:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T14:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jpeterstclairdentistry.com\/blog\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2019-08-26T14:48:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T14:48:46","slug":"some-interesting-facts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jpeterstclairdentistry.com\/blog\/some-interesting-facts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SOME INTERESTING FACTS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Gathered from various sources:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

50% consider the smile the first facial feature they notice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

80% are not happy with their smile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smile enhanced procedures outnumber eyelid surgeries 5 to 1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

32% of Americans cite bad breath as the least attractive trait of their\nco-workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

38.5 total days an average American spends brushing teeth over lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 73% of Americans would rather go grocery shopping than floss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

60% of people don’t know that a sore jaw, when combined with chest pain,\ncan signal a heart attack, especially in women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away\nfrom a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 A toothpick is the object most often\nchoked on by Americans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars\non chewing gum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of cavities in the average mouth is down and people are\nkeeping their teeth longer. People, on average, have healthier mouths than even\n10 years ago. 
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\nThe decline in tooth decay was greatest among kids but holds across every age\ngroup.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only 40% of young people age 6 to 19 have ever had a cavity in their\nlives.  That\u2019s down from 50% a decade ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the last ten years the proportion of people age 60 that had lost all\ntheir teeth had decreased from 33% to 25%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adults with post-high-school degrees had an average of three more teeth\nthan those without a high school diploma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smokers remain three times more likely than non-smokers to lose all their\nteeth.  This figure has not changed from a decade ago.
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Socio-economic status plays a definite role in one\u2019s general and dental\nhealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

33% of low-income adults have untreated decay.  This compared with\n16% of middle- and higher-income adults.  19% of kids living in poverty\nhave untreated decay compared with 8% of higher-income kids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like fingerprints, everyone\u2019s tongue print is different  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The average woman smiles about 62 times a day! A man?  Only 8!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kids laugh around 400 times a day. Grown-ups just 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smilers in school yearbooks are more likely to have successful careers\nand marriages than their poker-faced peers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gathered from various sources: 50% consider the smile the first facial feature they notice. 80% are not happy with their smile. Smile enhanced procedures outnumber eyelid surgeries 5 to 1. 32% of Americans cite bad breath as the least attractive trait of their co-workers. 38.5 total days an average American spends brushing teeth over lifetime.  73% of Americans would rather go grocery shopping than floss. 60% of people don’t know that a sore jaw, when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpeterstclairdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpeterstclairdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpeterstclairdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpeterstclairdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpeterstclairdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpeterstclairdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpeterstclairdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpeterstclairdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpeterstclairdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpeterstclairdentistry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}