There is perhaps no type of dental care products that take pride of place in medicine cupboards and washbags more than toothpaste, and this has been the case for thousands of years if you factor in early tooth powders and poultices. However, for nearly that entire history, the most important ingredient of modern toothpastes, fluoride, was not included in toothpastes until the latter part of the 19th century and was not regularly used until the 1960s. Why was this? Why did it take over six decades for fluoride toothpaste to emerge as a core part of dental health? In 1895,...

If you want to keep your oral health in tip-top shape, you will no doubt be brushing your teeth thoroughly and also using items like floss. For further benefits and to keep the bugs away, using Corsodyl mouthwash daily is a great way to keep things clean and fresh. For some, using mouthwash might be such a regular habit that you won’t think twice about it, including the question of where the idea of mouthwash came from. An article by Frisco Mini Molars in the US indicated that this, like many forms of toothcare, has actually been around longer than...

In terms of common dental care products online, mouthwash should be a critical part of a person’s daily dental routine in order to help protect the mouth and gums from a range of bacterial hazards. Whilst most people assume that dental mouthwashes began with Joseph Lister and the Listerine mouthwash that was named after him and has since become ubiquitous. However, the history of mouthwash is almost as old as the history of medicine itself, and some of the earliest dental health traditions had some form of mouthwash. The earliest alleged form of mouthwash comes from the ancient Indian medical...

If you use a manual toothbrush, you will be familiar with the statement that you should change your toothbrush every three months. It may be something you see displayed at a dental surgery when you go for an appointment, among other places. But is it true? Some might think this is just a ruse to get people to spend more money buying toothbrushes. Cynical people might think dentists have shares in toothbrush manufacturers and thus a vested interest. But, it is true. You really should change it that often. The main reasons were explained in a video by American dental...

There are some makers of dental care products that are so ubiquitous and long-lasting that they become names people trust largely on sight. Companies such as Oral-B, Sensodyne and of course, Colgate sell a lot of consumer oral health products primarily on the strength of their brands, with the generally reasonable belief that anything you buy from them will probably help your teeth. This kind of brand power is fantastic, except when you try to launch a line of frozen ready meals and confuse a lot of people in the process, at least in the test markets where they planned...

There are not that many cases when dental care products and musical instruments are discussed in the same article, but the strange case of an esoteric guitar shredder and minty-fresh dental floss is too fascinating to ignore. Prior to 2023, the only time that guitars and teeth were ever close to each other was when the legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix played a guitar solo with his teeth, which is a feat that left music fans in disbelief and dentists in disbelief for a very different reason. However, a guitarist by the name of Bernth Brödtrager may have topped this feat...