Brushing is the most important way to prevent oral diseases, and a toothbrush can make us do more with less. In life, there are many types of toothbrushes, electric, manual, soft, hard, and everything. So how did this toothbrush come about? Today we will talk about the history of the development of toothbrushes.
In human organs, the status of teeth is very important, after all, eating depends on teeth chewing and crushing food, and having a mouthful of strong teeth can eat ma ma fragrant. Therefore, the ancients learned dental care from a very early age.
In the beginning, the ancients directly washed the mouth with liquids such as water. It is recorded in the Book of Rites and Inner Rules: "The chicken first chirps, salty gargle", which means that after getting up early in the morning, rinse your mouth with salt water. In addition, the "Jindan Quanshu", written in the Eastern Han Dynasty, recommends that people rinse their mouths before going to bed, "morning gargling is not as good as night gargling, this is good at raising teeth."
However, this light gargling is certainly not enough, because some foods are easy to stuff teeth. Therefore, in order to remove the food residue in the mouth that remains, the ancients also removed their teeth. According to the Tang Dynasty Sun Simiao's "Preparation for Emergencies and Thousands of Gold", we know that Chinese early brushing method was to use fingers to brush teeth, that is, brushing by hand.
This method will certainly be somewhat unhygienic and unsightly, so when Buddhism was introduced to China, a "toothbrush" called "poplar branch" began to prevail in China, and gradually became an artifact for people to care for the oral cavity. According to the Records of Chinese India: "Indians use tooth branches, and they do not eat if they do not brush their teeth with them. Chinese don't have that habit. "And the tooth branch here is actually a poplar branch." Some people must be curious, how to gargle this poplar branch. In fact, it is very simple, put this branch called "poplar branch" in the mouth and chew it, until a certain amount of branches and whiskers appear at one end, and you can brush your teeth with whiskers. In addition, in the process of chewing poplar branches, the smell of poplar branches can also be used to improve breath.
So, when did the real toothbrush appear? Western professional institutions such as the American Dental Medical Association, the American Dental Museum, and the Robinson Publishing House in the United Kingdom all attributed the invention of the toothbrush to a Chinese emperor, Ming Xiaozong Zhu Youfan. In 1498, Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty embedded the mane of a pig in a bone handle and made the world's first toothbrush. Later, this bristle toothbrush spread to Europe and was welcomed by people, but due to the high cost, many people still could not afford to use it. The modern toothbrush is a toothbrush made of synthetic fibers introduced by The American DuPont Chemical in the 1940s, which is softer and cheaper than the bristle toothbrush. Therefore, until now, synthetic fiber toothbrushes are still commonly used toothbrushes in people's daily lives.