Did you know 19th century French painters helped inspire a popular innovation in dental care?
Back then, most people used tooth powders to clean their teeth, using ingredients such as charcoal, chalk, and even brick dust. Prepared pastes weren’t as popular,until the son of a dental surgeon in Paris mentioned watching local artists squeeze paint on their palettes from tubes. His father began selling his homemade dental cream formula, packaged in similar tubes, marking the invention of the modern toothpaste.