10 Fun Facts about Teeth and Smiles.....

1. It takes 43 muscles to frown but only 17 to smile.
2. A "smile" is top of the list of things we first notice when meeting a new person.
3. More than half of us wouldn´t tell a friend or a colleague if they had bad breath in fear of risking a friendship.
4. Our teeth and smiles are rated the second most important attractive feature by both men and women, only behind personality.
5. More than half of us would share our toothbrush with somebody: 24% to our partner, 18% to our child, 7% to a friend and even 6% to a celebrity.
6. One in five of us cannot remember when we last changed our toothbrush.
7. A toothbrush is the number one thing we cannot do without when we go on holiday.
8. If we only had five minutes to get ready in the morning, one in twenty would skip brushing our teeth.
9. Yellow is the colour that makes us smile the most, whereas purple makes us smile the least.
10. Chocolate is the food that makes us smile the most, followed then by Sunday Roast, a curry and a fry-up!

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