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How did people clean there teeth before toothbrushes and toothpaste was invented?

April 26, 2017clean dental Health invented people teeth toothbrushes Toothpaste

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How did people clean there teeth before toothbrushes and toothpaste was invented?

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My Dad never brushed his teeth and lost all of them at a very early age. The first toothpaste (or what passed for it) was invented long ago in Egypt, but pastes and powders didn’t come into general use until the 1800s. They only added flouride in 1914. Survival training tells you to use a stick (your finger can help a LITTLE).

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My mum who is 82 told me she and the rest of the family cleaned them with a bit of rag and soot have never tried it but they all had good teeth in later years bicarbonate of soda I have always cleaned mine with that and have never had to have them cleaned at the dentists