Spring is coming to a close, and summer is about to begin. Your 2014 Northern Hemisphere Summer Solstice occurs June 21 at 10:51 Universal Coordinated Time, which means your year is nearly half finished. When’s the last time you visited your local dentist in Lake Orion, MI for a checkup and cleaning? According to the American Dental Association (ADA), patients over the age of one should visit their dentist at least twice a year.
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May 28, 2014
Visit Your Dentist Before The First Day Of Summer
March 9, 2012
Toothbrush Trivia from Your Lake Orion Dentist
When you really think about it, you spend a lot of time brushing your teeth. If you brush your teeth twice a day for two minutes each time, you will spend over 1400 minutes brushing in a year’s time. A 2003 poll asked respondents which invention they could not live without. An overwhelming amount of respondents stated that they could not live without a toothbrush. For something so integral to our daily routines, many of us don’t know how much teeth cleaning methods have improved over the years. Dr. Brad Greenfield and our staff at Lake Orion Family Dentistry have posted some interesting toothbrush facts below.
The History of the Toothbrush
- Around 3500 B.C. Ancient Babylonians used “chewing sticks” to clean their teeth. These chewing sticks were basically like a large toothpick. Ancient Babylonians preferred sticks from certain trees because they noticed it improved the smell of their breath.
- Archeologists and anthropologists believe that the first version of a toothbrush appeared in China during the Middle Ages. This early form of a toothbrush was composed of hair from a hog’s neck attached to a bamboo stick. The hog’s hair served as bristles.
- Monks in Chinese monastic communities favored ox bone to bamboo and horse hair to hog’s hair.
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