{"id":1695,"date":"2014-03-05T14:22:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T14:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikemalonedds.com\/blog1\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2019-08-28T17:19:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T17:19:33","slug":"cities-best-worst-teeth-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog1\/cities-best-worst-teeth-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities With The Best And Worst Teeth In America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You might be thinking, how can you generalize the condition of an entire city\u2019s teeth?\u00a0 Of course, this cannot be done entirely accurately.\u00a0 But in using statistics, we can get a good idea of, in a geographic sense, who is taking care of their teeth and who isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Irwin Smigel, founder and creator of the American Society of Dental Anesthesiology (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adsahome.org\/\">ASDA<\/a>) and founder of Supersmile certainly has the credentials to set the criteria for good teeth as stated on TotalBeauty.com:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegular dentist visits, not smoking, keeping your soda, wine and coffee intake to a minimum, overall health, living in a humid enough climate (so your mouth doesn\u2019t dry out and allow bacteria to flourish), and brushing and flossing regularly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the list here and see where your city ranked with the rest.\u00a0 (The lists are courtesy of TotalBeauty.com\u2019s lists of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalbeauty.com\/content\/gallery\/p-best-teeth-cities\/p37372\/page13\">Best-Teeth Cities<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.totalbeauty.com\/content\/gallery\/p-worst-teeth-cities\/p36292\/page15\">Worst-Teeth Cities<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Best Teeth Cities<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>12.\u00a0\u00a0<b>Portland, Oregon<\/b><\/p>\n<p>11.\u00a0\u00a0<b>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<\/b><\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0\u00a0<b>Lincoln, Nebraska<\/b><\/p>\n<p>9.<b>\u00a0Burlington, Vermont\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0\u00a0<b>Seattle, Washington<\/b><\/p>\n<p>7. \u00a0<b>Newark, New Jersey\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>6.<b>\u00a0 Provo, Utah<\/b><\/p>\n<p>5. \u00a0<b>New York, NY<\/b><\/p>\n<p>4. \u00a0<b>San Francisco, California<\/b><\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0<b>Bethesda, Maryland<\/b><\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0<b>Boston, Massachusetts<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0<b>Bridgeport, Connecticut<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now it\u2019s time for the fun part: the list of cities with the worst teeth in America!\u00a0 Don\u2019t worry if your city is on this list &#8212; but perhaps it will be an incentive to take extra care of your dental health and maybe even make a dentist appointment if you haven\u2019t in awhile.\u00a0 After all, wouldn\u2019t it be nice if your bright, clean white teeth stood out in a crowd?<\/p>\n<h2>Worst Teeth Cities<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>14.\u00a0<strong>\u00a0Albuquerque, New Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>13. \u00a0<strong>Little Rock, Arkansas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>12. \u00a0<strong>Saint Louis, Missouri<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>11. \u00a0<strong>Miami, Florida<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0<strong>Las Vegas, Nevada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>9. \u00a0\u00a0<strong>Atlanta, Georgia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>8.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Houston, Texas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>7. \u00a0<strong>Greensboro, North Carolina<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>6. \u00a0<strong>Bristol, Tennessee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5. \u00a0<strong>Baton Rouge, Louisiana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4. \u00a0<strong>Tulsa, Oklahoma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0<strong>Mobile, Alabama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0<strong>Huntington, West Virginia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Biloxi, Mississippi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And there you have it!\u00a0 Is anyone disappointed or surprised by this list?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/about_doc.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-888\" src=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/about_doc.jpg\" alt=\"about_doc\" width=\"146\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Dr. Mike Malone\u00a0and his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/about_us.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">team<\/a>\u00a0practice expert cosmetic dentistry in Lafayette, LA. Dr. Malone is the former president and current accredited member of the<a href=\"https:\/\/aacd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry<\/a>. He\u00a0is also the official Cosmetic Dentist of the Miss Louisiana USA and Miss Louisiana Teen USA pageants. Check out his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might be thinking, how can you generalize the condition of an entire city\u2019s teeth?\u00a0 Of course, this cannot be done entirely accurately.\u00a0 But in using statistics, we can get&nbsp; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.camelliadds.com\/blog1\/cities-best-worst-teeth-america\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,363],"tags":[694,23,328,26,697,696,293,107,698,329,693,695],"class_list":{"0":"post-1695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dentistry","7":"category-health-lifestyle","8":"tag-best-teeth-in-america","9":"tag-dental-health","10":"tag-dentistry-2","11":"tag-dr-mike-malone","12":"tag-healthy-mouth","13":"tag-healthy-teeth","14":"tag-malone-dental","15":"tag-oral-health","16":"tag-pearly-whites","17":"tag-teeth","18":"tag-worst-teeth-in-america","19":"tag-yellow-teeth","20":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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