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Statistics > Oral health > Loss of natural teeth (Latest available) by state

Rank States Amount (top to bottom)
#1 West Virginia: 42.8%
#2 Kentucky: 38.1%
#3 Tennessee: 32.2%
#4 Alabama: 31.9%
#5 Louisiana: 31.3%
#6 Oklahoma: 31.1%
#7 Mississippi: 29.5%
#8 North Carolina: 28.3%
#9 Georgia: 28.2%
#10 Kansas: 27.8%
#11 Indiana: 27.3%
#12 South Dakota: 26.1%
#13 Missouri: 25.2%
#14 North Dakota: 24.9%
#15 Arkansas: 24.6%

http://www.statemaster.com/graph/hea_ora_hea_los_of_nat_tee-health-oral-loss-natural-teeth

[Phantom Lord]

At a former job I shared an office with a guy and one morning I told him the old joke, do you know how we know the toothbrush was invented in West Virginia? Because if it was invented anywhere else it would have been called a Teethbrush.

He wasn't pleased and informed me his wife was from WV.

I then went to my desk to read the paper. I opened the paper and the first headline I saw read, "West Virginia leads nation in toothlessness"

I cut it out and put it on his desk awaiting his return.