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Interesting Facts About Your Teeth

Dental care is part of our everyday routine, however, there may still be a few facts you don't know!

Our teeth grind up to 20 tons of food in the course of a lifetime!
On average, our teeth can withstand a pressure of approximately 30 kg.
Our tooth enamel has a Mohs hardness of 5 and is the hardest material in our body. Fun fact: diamonds have 10!
One in four respondents said electric toothbrushes are only for the lazy, but tests have shown that electric toothbrushes are more effective at removing plaque.
A toothbrush only cleans 60% of the tooth's surface. This is why your dentist keeps telling you to floss!
On average, every person goes to the dentist approx. 158 times in their life and uses 118.5 metres of dental floss (approx. 1.5 m per year).
Germans use 410,000,000 tubes of toothpaste every year.
Up to the 19th century, brushing teeth was considered a feminine activity in Europe.
A sonic toothbrush can easily rotate 30,000 revolutions per minute
4.5 kilometres: This is (on average) the length of bread that we chew in our lifetime.