Although it may seem like people have always used dental care products to keep their teeth clean and healthy, these are actually fairly modern inventions. Simple products including manual toothbrushes, toothpaste and dental floss were once considered highly innovative and groundbreaking inventions. Most people would probably agree that we should be glad to live in a time when bad breath solutions and teeth whiteners are on the market. It’s hard to imagine life any other way.

Manual toothbrushes were the first products introduced to the market with the purpose of keeping people’s teeth clean. It was the Chinese who first came up with the idea to use bristle brushes for tooth cleaning, and the idea was introduced to the European audience in the 1700s thanks to French doctors. The first mass produced dental care products were toothbrushes that William Addis introduced in England shortly after. The first American toothbrush was not patented until 1885, however, thanks to inventor H.N. Wadsworth.

American consumers did not see manual toothbrushes with nylon bristles until 1938, when DuPont packaged them in boxes to be sold at drug stores. Surprisingly, the first electric toothbrushes were introduced in Switzerland the following year, although Americans would not see similar products until the 1960s. Americans also used to brush their teeth only once or twice a week until Army soldiers returned from WWII and spread the habit of daily brushing that was common elsewhere in the world.

Toothpaste also originated in China, and was used in ancient India as well. The modern idea of toothpaste did not begin to form until the 1800s, however, and by 1873 Colgate had begun packaging and marketing it for the masses. So, it may seem that before the 1800s people in Western cultures did not use any dental care products at all, but dental floss has actually been around for thousands of years, although it wasn’t waxed until the 1800s. And fortunately, dental care products are easily accessible today.

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