Your dentist will appreciate hearing that you're brushing twice daily with a fluoride toothpaste, in accordance with generally accepted tooth-cleaning recommendations. However, you might want to ...

Brushing your teeth with toothpaste is such a normal part of daily life that it is hard to imagine how people managed without it. Yet toothpaste, as we know it today, is a fairly recent invention. For ...

The concept of toothpaste and mouthwash is pretty old - almost as old as the Egyptian toothbrush. In fact, the earliest known toothpaste was created by the Egyptians. It was said to contain a drachma ...

The quest for minty-fresh breath goes back at least 5,000 years. The Dentist (1629), a satirical painting by Dutch artist Jan Miense Molenaer. In pre-industrialised Europe, there was no anaesthetic ...