Everybody knows what a smile means. Everybody knows how important a smile is. And everybody knows that if we don’t brush our teeth, our smile won’t be so attractive. But teeth and smiles haven’t always been as bright as they are today. Way back then, people didn’t have the means that we have today to keep their teeth white. They used some pretty crude methods of teeth whitening. So let’s look back at the history of teeth whitening and find out how people did keep their teeth white.
Can you imagine people way back in 3000 BC using toothbrushes? Well, they weren’t what we know as toothbrushes today. And they didn’t call them toothbrushes, either. They called them “chew sticks”. They were actually just small branches, with one end frayed. They’d rub them on their teeth to scrape off any particles.Now we’ll look at the history of toothpaste. Egyptians actually used toothpaste in 2000 BC, made of powdered pumice stone and wine vinegar, brushed on with a chew stick. As fowl as that sounds, it’s nothing compared to how gross the Romans’ toothpaste was. It was made from human urine! First-century Roman doctors believed that urine whitened teeth and also kept them firmly in place. Yuk!
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