Saturday, March 21, 2015

Teeth Really Do Matter


Hospital administrators in Alabama needed to find a way to explain discharge instructions to patients but they could not be sure that the instructions could be understood because of low intelligence. They did a study which correlated the number of tattoos with the number of teeth a person had and they have been able to draw conclusions from this. For those patients UNDER 60 years old:

The conclusion they found was the more tattoos a person has and the fewer teeth that person has...
the lower the intelligence. The hospital knew that it had to spend more time explaining instructions to these individuals.

If you would like to see the article yourself:


http://www.gomerblog.com/2014/03/tattoo-tooth/

To you and I, this is no surprise.