We thought it would be a good time for some Christmas inspired dental trivia!
Remember the song “All
I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth?”
Did you know this
novelty Christmas song was written in 1944, by Donald Yetter Gardner? A music
teacher in New York, one day Mr. Gardner asked his second-grade class what they
wanted for Christmas.
He noticed that almost all of the
students had at least one front tooth missing as they answered in a
lisp! According to Wikipedia, Gardner wrote the song in 30 minutes. In a
1995 interview, Gardner said, "I was amazed at the way that silly little
song was picked up by the whole country.” The song was published in 1948 after
an employee of Witmark music company heard Gardner sing it at a music teachers
conference. This is the kind of missing tooth story even a dentist can delight
in!
When you picture a reindeer smiling,
what do you picture?
Would it surprise you to learn that
reindeer only have teeth on the bottom of their mouths? On the top, they have a
hard, bony plate to help grind their food. So chances are, the big toothy grin
you’re picturing isn’t really what a reindeer smile looks like — unless they’ve
had some implants! And Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer probably wasn’t a regular
patient for his dentist!
“All I Want For Christmas is You” —
Mariah Carey has a secret for a straight-looking smile
One of our favorite Christmas songs is
“All I Want for Christmas is You,” and most of us think of Mariah Carey as
having a picture-perfect smile. But did you know her teeth are not perfectly
aligned? Instead, she has a secret to LOOKING great in pictures! When she
smiles, she lets photographers take most of her pictures from her best angle,
her right.
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