An elephant's tooth can weigh over six pounds.  A tusk from an adult male elephant, on the other hand, can weigh anywhere from 100 to 175 pounds.  The heaviest tusk ever recorded weighed in at 220 pounds! Fortunately, because elephants generally stick to their natural...

Did you know? If you are right-handed, you tend to chew on your right side. If you are left-handed, you tend to chew on the left side of your mouth. We don't have a problem with that . . . .

How badly can your tooth ache?  Apparently, badly enough to break out of Oestragaard prison in southwest Sweden in order to get to the dentist. And that's exactly what a 51-year-old Swedish inmate did "because he had a toothache and wanted to go to the dentist." He...

Yes.  It's a fact. It's weird.  And it's dental. Imagine waking up every day, thinking it's time for your root canal appointment. Ten years after the fact, a British soldier who had been stationed in Germany, still believes it's the morning of March 2005, and he's...

Did you know that teeth are the only part of a person's skeleton you can see while they are alive? So be sure to brush your skeleton after meals. Which is kind of weird, if you think about it.  (But do it anyway.)

The tongue is considered to be the strongest muscle in the body.   (If you doubt it, ask any dental assistant who has had to hold one back.)

It has been claimed that mosquitoes have 47 teeth.  Let's set the record straight here at Weird Dental Facts:  In actual fact, they do not! Now, while you may be relieved to know that mosquitoes don't have teeth, unfortunately, that doesn’t prevent those bothersome...

  The Guinness Book of Records has recognized a dentist from Offenbach, Germany for pulling a 37-millimeter long tooth out of the mouth of a patient who had complained about severe pain. Dr. Max Lukas had extracted the 37.2-millimeter giant tooth ( that’s 1.46...

The narwhal, or narwhale, is a small to medium-sized toothed whale that possesses a large "tusk" from a protruding canine tooth. It lives year-round in the Arctic waters around Greenland, Canada, and Russia.  It is sometimes called the "Unicorn of the Sea" because of...