Word: toothbrushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toothbrush may eventually give way to the Orajet, a device developed by Manhattan Dentist Charles L. Hyser (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943). Like many other dentists, Dr. Hyser has long been dissatisfied with the toothbrush. He has told patients that it does not do a very good job of cleaning, and may cause "abrasion cavities" by wearing off the enamel. A year and a half ago he started out to find something better. Last week, having cho sen the final design, he was ready to start 500-a-day production in a Mt. Vernon, N.Y. machine shop...
Libyans for world citizenship. A fair man with a toothbrush mustache and an American accent was saying: "I think I was born in Holland-I think so, mind you." Another young man, very dark and ill-shaven, introduced himself to me crisply: "I am the French press attache of this movement. I was appointed only yesterday, so there is little I can tell you about Garry Davis. However, I can tell you a lot about the Trotskyists, with whom I used to have numerous affiliations...
...family toothbrush That hangs by the sink...
Almost as bad as the toothbrush of this parody, say Dentists Allen O. Gruebbel and J. M. Wisan, is the actual toothbrush used by the average U.S. family. Staff members of the American Dental Association, they examined 8,176 toothbrushes sent in* by 1,929 families all over the U.S., reported their findings last week in the A.D.A.'s Journal. Four out of five (80.7%) of the brushes were useless or actually "dangerous" (because they might irritate the gums); three-fourths of these had bent, broken or matted bristles; one-fourth were regarded as unsanitary...
...examiners recommended "frequent use and renewal of the toothbrush." They expressed no preference between natural bristles and nylon bristles (80% of all toothbrushes are now nylon). The argument of natural v. nylon bristles is still raging among dentists; other researchers are busy with tests to find out which bristles cause least damage to enamel...