We should be brushing our teeth longer

So in my "normal" day to day life I tend to always be learning something new, but deciding to blog about what I learned has made me more aware of the type of information I learn on any given day. Today I went to the dentist and the hygienist provided this little tidbit "most people tend to think brushing harder is better but actually you should brush longer." So of course being the google nerd that I am I came home and googled this and found out that on average we don’t brush our teeth long enough.

The average person brushes:
Two minutes a day
14 minutes a week
12.1 hours a year
38.5 days in their lifetime

The average person should brush:
Six minutes a day
42 minutes a week
36.4 hours a year
122 days in their lifetime

5 thoughts on “We should be brushing our teeth longer

  1. Wow. I brush my teeth 3-5 times per day (depending on how much I eat) I sing the birthday song, twinkle twinkle, and the ABC’s. Yea I’m a loser–what I have great teeth. :0)

  2. I have heard of that, we’re supposed to WASH OUR HANDS and brush our teeth, the length of the Happy Birthday song, learned it from Oprah when I was a kid!:O)

  3. So if you brush your teeth for 42 minutes straight in one day, you’re already good for the whole week? LOL! I guess not, but that would be a big challenge, wouldn’t it? I mean, brushing your teeth for two whole minutes is hard enough.

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