So the modern tooth brush was invented in the early 1900s ?

[Telstra]

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Is that mean that there weren't much kissing going on before the 1900s ??
(Not much kissing if you don't brush your teeth anyway)

[star-warrior]

"Waterloo teeth" is a bit grisly.

[Telstra]

"Waterloo teeth" is a bit grisly.

Taken the teeth out of dead soldiers and 2nd hand teeth ?
Thats news to me. Yuck !!!

[pat grimshaw]

^ That Waterloo teeth article was fascinating

[LeicsDom]

I had heard about that.

In Elizabethan times they wore false teeth made of wood
http://prezi.com/-cpguoglrcuc/women-...abethan-times/

[cynicus]

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Is that mean that there weren't much kissing going on before the 1900s ??
(Not much kissing if you don't brush your teeth anyway)

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I have been told the tooth brush was invented in Kentucky. Otherwise, is would be called a "teeth brush."

[Telstra]

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But was there much tongue kissing (exchange of fluid) before the invention of the nylon tooth brush?

I think right now, there are not much kissing in poorer area of Africa, poorer Asia, North Korea, Afghanistan ... etc ? Am i right ?

[kevin23]

Early 1900's (maybe before) in the US doctors and dentist would recommend the use of Snuff (finely ground tobacco for those not famaliar with it) to use to clean their teeth. A blackgum twig ( a very tough and fiberious wood) was chewed to spread the fibers out much like a brush and it was used to scrub the teeth with the snuff. It was actually labeled as Dental Snuff. During this time you could also buy opiates over the counter at any store for toothache, headache, and to cleanse the liver !!!!! In another 100 years people will likely look on our medicine today with as much distain.

[Telstra]

Tooth brush without any tooth paste will not work.
I guess tooth paste was invented in similar times.

twig toothbrush is a good idea if it has the tooth decay fighting agent.

[jjonn3]

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I have been told the tooth brush was invented in Kentucky. Otherwise, is would be called a "teeth brush."

Ouch!

[jjonn3]

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Is that mean that there weren't much kissing going on before the 1900s ??
(Not much kissing if you don't brush your teeth anyway)

People had very different standards back then -

No deodorant (although they had perfume) - people did not bathe as often or wash clothes - if you have ever been near a real outhouse you know that they just lived with smells we would never accept today.

[Telstra]

People had very different standards back then -

No deodorant (although they had perfume) - people did not bathe as often or wash clothes - if you have ever been near a real outhouse you know that they just lived with smells we would never accept today.

So true.
And right now, different standards between countries.
Just compare America and Afghanistan. I don't think the Afghanis can afford to brush their teeth with tooth paste.

[Telstra]

TBHonest, I can't imagine to live way past before 1800- for sanitation reason

ummm your sanitation standard would not be that high during those times.

[Nishin]

Tooth brush without any tooth paste will not work.

Paste makes the brushing easier, more pleasant and efficient but it is not essential, the brushing is

[Telstra]

Paste makes the brushing easier, more pleasant and efficient but it is not essential, the brushing is

Paste is like soap.
Washing smelly hands without soap is not that effective.

[Nishin]

Brushing teeth is not (only) about smell... it's about removing left overs from your teeth, try using only paste without a brush and see

[LeicsDom]

In the days before toothpaste they used all sorts of things to freshen the breath and aid oral hygene