Children S Dental Health Month Fun Facts

The average person only brushes for 45 to 70 seconds a day the recommended amount of time is 2 3 minutes.

Children s dental health month fun facts. More than 51 million hours of school are lost each year by children due to dental related illness. People in the united sates buy 14 million gallons of toothpaste every year. Kids laugh around 400 times a day adults just 15 times a day.

In honor of national children s dental health month this february we re sharing some of the important facts that earned this issue its own month. Giraffes only have bottom teeth. Fluoride varnishes for preventing dental caries in children and adolescents.

National children s dental health month ncdhm began as a one day event in cleveland ohio on february 3 1941. Employed adults lose more than 164 million hours of work each year due to oral health problems or dental visits. Teething can cause sore gums appetite loss and.

On average a person spends 38 5 days brushing their teeth over a lifetime. A report by the centers for disease control and prevention revealed that 19 percent of adolescents aged 2 to 19 have untreated dental caries. Children have a set of 20 milk teeth.

Because it s so durable healthy tooth enamel protects teeth. Milk teeth or primary teeth appear beginning on the child s 6 th month and. 10 interesting facts about children s dental health you should know 1.

The american dental association says this is because. Good dental health is not expensive. Just 40 of children in poor or near poor poverty levels had a preventive dental visit in the past year.