FULL STORY:  Oral hygiene seems simple.  But if you’ve ever been in SOMEONE ELSE’S BATHROOM, you know that people can really complicate it.  Beyond just lying about flossing.

A new poll asked over 30,000 people how they squeeze a tube of toothpaste . . . and 72% say from the bottom of the tube to the top, which makes sense.

20% of people say they squeeze the toothpaste out from the TOP of the tube, which doesn’t make as much sense.

This is a great time to ask:  “Have you ever disagreed with someone you share toothpaste with about how it should be used?”  21% of people say YES.  

Finally, people were asked:  “How much toothpaste do you typically use?”

28% of people say they squeeze out about a full brush-length of toothpaste.  That’s the BRISTLES part, of course.  31% say a little less . . . about half the brush length.  And 32% say less than that, about “the size of a pea.”

And 4% of people are REALLY skimpy, using “an amount the size of a single grain of rice.”  

The demographic that was most likely to use less . . . the pea or rice amounts . . . are younger females, living in the western U.S