• Crocodile SmileEach person’s set of teeth is unique–much like your fingerprints.
  • The Mexican version of the  Tooth Fairy  is known as the Tooth Mouse, which takes the tooth and leaves a treasure in it’s place.
  • George Washington’s teeth were made from walrus, hippopotamus, and cow’s teeth, with some elephant tusks thrown in for good measure.
  • In 200 AD, the Romans used a mixture of bones, eggshells, oyster-shells and honey to clean their teeth.
  • Queen Elizabeth I’s teeth were noticeably discolored. They speculated the discoloration was due to the Queen’s excessive consumption of sugar, making the first recorder association between sugar and tooth decay.
  • The second most common disease in the United States is tooth decay. The first is the common cold.
  • A snail can have about 25,000 teeth on it’s tongue!
  • Horses teeth are extremely long and grow continually. They wear down, change shape, and become discolored as they grow, so we can really tell a horse’s age by looking at his teeth.
  • Crocodiles don’t clean their own teeth–a little bird called a plover, picks their teeth for scraps of leftover food.
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