{"id":683,"date":"2015-09-28T14:49:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T13:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/?p=683"},"modified":"2015-10-30T14:50:57","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T14:50:57","slug":"people-actually-brush-their-teeth-with-their-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/people-actually-brush-their-teeth-with-their-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"People actually brush their teeth with their fingers?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this crazy article I found the other day:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-3209076\/HALF-adults-fail-brush-teeth-night-tired-admit-using-FINGER-brush.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-3209076\/HALF-adults-fail-brush-teeth-night-tired-admit-using-FINGER-brush.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new survey released by GSK has revealed some astounding facts about the dental habits of us Brits.<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to highlight some of the main statistics this survey found\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>45% of 10,000 adults say they\u2019ve gone to bed without brushing (either due to laziness, tiredness, or simply forgetting)<\/li>\n<li>One in five said they only brush with water<\/li>\n<li>14% \u2018brush\u2019 their teeth with a finger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s simply mind boggling.<\/p>\n<p>No surprise at all that 29% of these people have <strong>at least six<\/strong> <strong>fillings<\/strong>, and 67% have experienced <strong>tooth decay and cavities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In this day and age, this shouldn\u2019t be such a widespread problem.<\/p>\n<p>Simply brush your teeth twice a day for a couple of minutes a day, floss\/use mouthwash, and get regular check-ups.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all that your teeth need of you.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like more advice on dental health, or to book an appointment with us, simply call <strong>020 8088 2079<\/strong> and we\u2019ll see what we can do for you and your teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out this crazy article I found the other day: http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-3209076\/HALF-adults-fail-brush-teeth-night-tired-admit-using-FINGER-brush.html A new survey released by GSK has revealed some astounding facts about the dental habits of us Brits. Allow me to highlight some of the main statistics this survey found\u2026 45% of 10,000 adults say they\u2019ve gone to bed without brushing (either due to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/people-actually-brush-their-teeth-with-their-fingers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People actually brush their teeth with their fingers?!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightsidedental.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}