{"id":506,"date":"2011-05-05T18:13:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T18:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterpatedds.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2011-05-05T18:13:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T18:13:34","slug":"5-dental-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/5-dental-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Dental Facts to Fight Rainy Day Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-783 aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top:3px;margin-bottom:3px;border:black 3px solid;\" title=\"5 dental facts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-dental-facts.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-dental-facts.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/5-dental-facts-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you are trapped indoors and need\u00a0relief from the tedium share some fun facts with your friends and family.\u00a0Here are five cool\u00a0dental factoids:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body<\/li>\n<li>Most people have 32 teeth as adults (includes 4 wisdom 8 incisors 4 canines 12 molars and 8 premolars)<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 of Americans over age 60 have lost all of their natural teeth<\/li>\n<li>The average adult exerts about 20-40 pounds of pressure when biting.\u00a0 However millions of us can bite with up to 250 pounds of force!<\/li>\n<li>Besides colas and citrus overly chlorinated pools can also erode your enamel!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/meet-the-dentist.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Peter Pate<\/a> of Dentistry in Buckhead and I encourage my patients to choose a healthy diet and maintain proper oral hygiene habits of brushing twice daily flossing once a day rinsing after meals and keeping your regular dental visits. Call my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/contact.html\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta dental office<\/a> at (404)266-9424 to schedule an appointment. \u00a0Enjoy the beautiful spring weather!<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:14.25pt;margin:0 0 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:14.25pt;margin:0 0 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trivia buffs and Dr. Pate have one thing in common: they love the details. Here are five facts to amaze your friends and family with over holiday dinners this season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[108,114,136,171,302,305,306,307,308,315,322,341,391,589,592,636,638],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patedds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}