FUN FACTS
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum
More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different
The average woman smiles about 62 times a day!
A man? 8
Kids laugh around 400 times a day
Grown-ups just 15
Year commercial floss was first manufactured: 1882
33% of Americans have untreated tooth decay (cdc, 2002)
78% of Americans have had at least 1 cavity by age 17 (cdc, 2002)
1.8 Billion dollars is the total annual consumer spending on toothpaste
775 Millions dollars is the total annual consumer spending on toothbrushes
885 Million dollars is the total annual consumer spending on oral antiseptics/rinses
1994 a prison inmate in West Virginia braided floss into a rope, scaled the wall and escaped
73% of Americans would rather go grocery shopping than floss