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A Fun Timeline of Early Dental History
December 9, 2017 Posted in Educational, General, Moon Valley Dental Care Blog
How Teeth Whitening Works
December 6, 2017 Posted in Cosmetic, Educational, Moon Valley Dental Care Blog
5 Things You Didn’t Know From Dental Care History in the U.S.
December 3, 2017 Posted in Educational, General, Moon Valley Dental Care Blog
Toothbrushes Used to Be Made From Plants & Animals
November 26, 2017 Posted in All Inclusive, Educational, Moon Valley Dental Care Blog
TOOTHBRUSHES Used to Be Made From Plants & Animals
The modern toothbrush has only been around for about 90 years, but it is the latest in a long evolution of tools to fight tooth decay, stretching back thousands of years and involving a whole range of flora and fauna!
Pre-History – Chewing on Sticks
Long before our ancestors used toothbrushes to ward off tooth decay, people chewed on sticks or twigs to clean their teeth. The earliest chew sticks found date back to 3500 B.C. in Mesopotamia and a tomb from 3000 B.C. in Egypt. Archeological finds also indicate that people used bird feather quills and porcupine spines to pick and clean their teeth.
Chew sticks are still around in the Middle East and northern Africa in the form of miswaks (also called siwaak or sewak)...
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