The Greek physician Hippocrates (400 BC) suggested a toothpaste made from three mice and the head of a hare to cure toothache.

The world’s oldest known formula for toothpaste, used more than 1,500 years before Colgate began marketing in 1873, was discovered on a piece of dusty papyrus in the basement of a Viennese museum.   Powder for White and Perfect Teeth Crush and combine: • One drachma*...

A third of the population squeeze their toothpaste tube from the middle. . . which thoroughly annoys the rest of the population.                    

In the early 1600s Japanese women made their teeth black to show loyalty to their husbands. Ohaguro is the term for this custom of dyeing one's teeth black. It was most popular in Japan until the Meiji era. Tooth painting was also known and practiced in the...

The Statue of Liberty's mouth is three feet wide! Source: The National Park Service

You may remember Doc Holliday for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and their famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, but Holliday was actually a dentist who was trained in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and developed a booming little practice in Atlanta. After a short time,...

According to Guinness World Records, the most expensive tooth sold at auction cost £23,010 ($36,857) and was bought by Dr Michael Zuk (Canada) at the Omega Auction House in Stockport, Cheshire, UK, on 5 November 2011. The tooth is reported to have belonged to John...

Now, if this doesn't qualify as a weird dental "fact," well then, not much does:   Justin Quinnell, 52, from Bristol, England, has travelled the world taking pictures with a pinhole camera placed inside his mouth. He has captured every aspect of his life - from a trip...

Apparently, in Vermont, women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth. Now, how they enforce this is beyond us. . . . And while we are on the subject of strange laws  in Vermont, at one time it was also illegal to tie a giraffe to a...