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| Dental Hygiene and history of toothbrush |
| 04.12.05 (9:40 pm) [edit] |
When toothbrush was first used or is there any evidences of oral hygiene 1000's of years ago.
It is believed that Chinese first created the toothbrush. It was not a toothbrush in real sense but more of a device that was used to clean teeth. The first form of brush was crafted from bamboo in 1400. It was used as handle and hairs of Siberian wild boar were used as bristles attached to the handle. This was the first toothbrush associated with having been the ancestor of the one that we use today.
Another form of toothbrush was found 3000 years before the birth of Christ. This was found in the pyramids in Egypt. These toothbrushes were crafted from a stick. Unlike the Chinese version of the toothbrush, the end of the stick was flayed so that the fibers of the wood were softer. This stick was then rubbed against the teeth to serve as a form of oral hygiene.
Chinese version of the toothbrush became popular and went further to Europe. Hairs of the Siberian wild boar were bit tough on gums. Hairs of horse back started gaining popularity as they were not horse on gums. Despite the added softness of the horse hair bristles, the boar hairs were more commonly used, as horses were too valuable to Europeans during this period of time.
In 1937, Wallace H. Carothers created nylon in the Du Pont laboratories. This invention forever changed the history of the toothbrush, as well as every other device that required a fibrous material, including ropes. In 1938, Nylon became the sign of modernization, from the creation of nylon stockings to Dr. West's first nylon toothbrush.
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