10 unnecessary stupid facts about your mouth

Yes, sorry, but after crazy fun facts about delicious wipneus and flaporen the mouth cannot be silent, you understand. Your bakka, your bek, klep, kwebbel, smoeltje, bakkes, snater, snavel, snuit, waffel. This is everything you don't necessarily need to know, but still want to know about your mouth.

1. I'll just say it: during a perfect brushing session, you brush at least thirty-five times per side, ideally making seven brushing movements in five parts. If you want to brush ‘nicely’ in that rhythm, Gangnam Style by Psy is recommended. Soooo.

2. Pretty chill: fewer and fewer people are getting wisdom teeth. In 35 percent of people, they don't come through, and that percentage will continue to rise due to evolution. Researchers believe there will be a future generation that won't get any wisdom teeth at all.

3. Did you know that, just like your fingerprint, you also have a tongue print? How do people MEASURE this kind of information?

4. Most people chew more on the side of their dominant hand. That means if you're right-handed, you're probably chewing more on the right side of your mouth and vice versa.

5. Women with a pronounced bulge in their upper lip can orgasm more easily, according to university research. Do you have a clear cupid's bow? Lucky you!

6. An average person produces about 25,000 liters of saliva in their lifetime. Enough to fill two large swimming pools. Yuck.

7. Your jaw is the strongest muscle in your body. On average, it can produce between 85 and 100 kilos of force. Oh, and if you also regularly grind your teeth or chew gum, then you belong to the people with the strongest jaw muscles.

8. As you get older, you taste less. Not that you have to deal with the same set of taste buds your whole life: they renew themselves about every ten days, but over the years their sensitivity does decrease.

 
9. In the Netherlands, about fifteen children are born each year with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome. In this case, a child grows faster than normal and often develops a noticeably large tongue. This can cause problems with eating, breathing, and speaking. Sometimes physiotherapy offers a solution, but sometimes the tongue needs to be surgically reduced. The tongue can then grow back. Swallow.

10. Men look at women with red lipstick for an average of 7.3 seconds, while they otherwise ‘only’ look for an average of 2.2 seconds.