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According to this website . . . http://www.parentingtoddlers.com/toothbrush-history.html The toothbrush was first invented by the Chinese in the XVth century and brought back to Europe by travellers. This toothbrush was made of hairs from the neck of a Siberian wild boar which were fixed to a bamboo or bone handle.
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A student from the Middle East told me that the Arabs were using toothbrushes long before that. They weren't the conventional thing with bristles and a handle; they were, instead, a twig with a whole lot of longitudinal cuts in one end of it. One was shown in "Shakespeare in Love" being used by the Gwyneth Paltrow character.
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