{"id":367,"date":"2012-07-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mydentalpracticeblog.com\/\/hudsonhighlandsdentistry\/dental-care-blog\/how-about-some-tooth-trivia\/"},"modified":"2012-07-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T00:00:00","slug":"how-about-some-tooth-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mydentalpracticeblog.com\/hudsonhighlandsdentistry\/dental-care-blog\/how-about-some-tooth-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"How About Some Tooth Trivia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hudsonhighlandsdentistryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/hipptee1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"733\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-264645\" \/> <\/p>\n<h3><strong>Did You Know&#8230;<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/aic\/collections\/artwork\/6565\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-212\" src=\"http:\/\/hudsonhighlandsdentistryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/THUMB2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>DID YOU KNOW THAT THE STERN-FACED FARMER<\/strong> that American artist Grant Wood used as the model for his famous painting <em>American Gothic<\/em> <strong>was actually his dentist?<\/strong> Yes, it\u2019s true. <\/p>\n<h3><strong>A Few Other Random, Dental-Related Tidbits<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p> <strong>The first chewing gum<\/strong> was \u201cchicle\u201d\u2014sap from Sapodilla trees. Chicle dates back to Aztec times when people boiled and cut it into blocks. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>You may have once heard<\/strong> that George Washington\u2019s false teeth were made of wood. They weren\u2019t. They were made of ivory, lead, and hippopotamus teeth.<\/li>\n<li>The average person produces <strong>100,000 gallons of saliva<\/strong> during their lifetime\u2014enough to fill 200 bathtubs!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Before toothbrushes<\/strong>, people used shredded twigs to clean their teeth.<\/li>\n<li>An average person exerts <strong>30-40 pounds of pressure per square inch with their jaw muscles.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>One in 2,000 babies is born with some teeth already grown in.<\/strong> Usually, these extra teeth can be pulled and the child will still grow a full set of baby teeth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>During the Middle Ages,<\/strong> some people believed that kissing a donkey would relieve a toothache, and that stealing someone\u2019s tooth could help them grow a new one of their own. Silly folks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rabbit\u2019s and squirrel\u2019s teeth never stop growing.<\/strong> They continuously wear them down by gnawing on whatever is handy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Now, Become A Teeth Expert In 30 Seconds<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>  [youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FWQmYk4-Nu0&#038;version=3&#038;hl=en_US&#038;rel=0] <\/p>\n<h3><strong>We Just Wanted To Share A Few Fun Things! <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p> <strong>As a rule,<\/strong> we tend to be pretty serious most of the time when it comes to your oral health and our <strong>services<\/strong>. But we all need to lighten up once in a while. Life\u2019s too short. <strong>Our team<\/strong> hopes you\u2019ve enjoyed some of these fun things and trivia.  Do you have any random facts of your own to share? Let us know <strong>by commenting below<\/strong> or sending us a message on our <strong>Facebook<\/strong> page. We love hearing from you! <\/p>\n<h4>And thank you so much for being our valued patients and friends!<\/h4><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DID YOU KNOW THAT THE STERN-FACED FARMER<\/strong> that American artist Grant Wood used as the model for his famous painting <em>American Gothic<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[176],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-176","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mydentalpracticeblog.com\/hudsonhighlandsdentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mydentalpracticeblog.com\/hudsonhighlandsdentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mydentalpracticeblog.com\/hudsonhighlandsdentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mydentalpracticeblog.com\/hudsonhighlandsdentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mydentalpracticeblog.com\/hudsonhighlandsdentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mydentalpracticeblog.com\/hudsonhighlandsdentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mydentalpracticeblog.com\/hudsonhighlandsdentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mydentalpracticeblog.com\/hudsonhighlandsdentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mydentalpracticeblog.com\/hudsonhighlandsdentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mydentalpracticeblog.com\/hudsonhighlandsdentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mydentalpracticeblog.com\/hudsonhighlandsdentistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}