Some babies are born with teeth.  About one in every 2000 babies is born with natal teeth, so sometimes baby's first dentist appointment is not too long after birth. Natal teeth usually grow on the bottom gums and tend to have weak roots; they're often removed to...

For 25% of children, their first visit to the emergency ward in hospitals is due to a dental emergency.

A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 mph! (Who times these things?!)

Some common remedies for a toothache from ancient times included boiling earthworms in oil, and then using that oil to put drops in your ear. In order to make loose teeth firm, it was recommended that you tie a frog to your jaw.

A person swallows 25 times per hour while awake and 10 times per hour while sleeping, for a total of 480 times each day. Source: Graf H. Bruxism. Dent Clin North Am. 1969;13:659-665.

Dentists were ranked third among the most trusted professionals in 1995 but slipped to ninth in 2001. According to Gallup Poll rankings, they managed climbed back up to rank sixth in 2009. Still making the top ten! A 1997 Reader's Digest article may have done the most...

The average person spends roughly 38.5 days over their lifetime brushing their teeth.   Does that sound like a lot? Well, if you consider that for a person who lives 75 years, about 25 years of them are spent sleeping -- maybe not so much!

An Englishwoman who was terrified of dentists used SUPERGLUE to stick teeth back in her mouth for TEN YEARS. -- Angie Barlow, 48, became scared of dentists after her mother's throat cancer was discovered at a visit to have a tooth removed. -- For more than 10 yeasrs,...

A Canadian man proposed to his girlfriend with a ring made from his wisdom tooth. A toothbrush may be all that a Carlee Leifkes needs to clean her engagement ring, because in lieu of a diamond, her engagement ring featured her husband-to-be's tooth. Some girls who...