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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

Not so long ago, dentures were common wedding gifts in the British Isles. Evidently this was because many people expected that they would eventually lose all of their teeth.  In fact, some individuals actually expedited the process by having their teeth extracted at...

Sofia Vergara, otherwise known as Gloria Pritchett on Modern Family, studied pre-dentistry at the University of Colombia for three years, and, she's "obsessed" with good oral hygiene. She's been an actress, model, television host and, yes, Vergara almost took up...

Prince Charles reportedly relied on former senior valet Michael Fawcett to squeeze toothpaste onto his royal toothbrush. Fawcett, was according to numerous news sources, the only person Charles trusted with this tremendous responsibility.

Before it was sold over-the-counter for oral care, did you know that Listerine was initially invented in the 19th century as a surgical antiseptic, and later promoted as a floor cleaner and cure for gonorrhea? (The smell always did remind us a bit of Pine-Sol®. . . .)...