Just how clean are peoples’ teeth in your city? A recent Men’s Health study sought to find out exactly that. In fact, Men’s Health ranked 100 major U.S. cities on numerous oral hygiene-related factors to determine which city could claim the nation’s cleanest teeth.

To explain the factors involved in ranking each city, Men’s Health stated that the:

“analysis includes stats from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the number of people who visit their dentists for annual checkups, the number of no-shows whose choppers are dropping out, and the number of households with fluoride on tap. And since warding off gum disease is key to keeping your smile, we also factored in who’s flossing, from Mediamark Research.”

So, which U.S. city came out on top? The winner, believe it or not was Madison, Wisconsin. On the other hand, Lubbock, Texas was not so lucky coming in dead last at number 100.

The studys’ authors further broke down the results and provided top 10 rankings for: Cities with the most households using floss in the past 6 months, cities where the most people visited the dentist within the past year, cities providing the highest percentage of fluoridated water, lowest rate of permanent teeth extractions, and a few other interesting measures.

To see where your city ranks amongst 99 other U.S. cities, visit the article on the Men’s Health website.

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