1498: The emperor of China patents the toothbrush: hogback bristles set into a piece of bone or bamboo. Dental hygiene takes a step up. How — or if — you cleaned your teeth before this time ...

During 1498, toothbrushes resembling those used today were developed in China. Bristles in these toothbrushes were prepared from coarse hairs derived the back of a hog's neck and were fixed to ...

Then, in 1498, the emperor of China developed a device with hog bristles placed in a bone handle. This type of toothbrush became so popular that in Europe even the common folk used it. The price ...

Although the history of pig-bristle toothbrushes reaches back to around 1498 in China, the bristle brush spread to Europe and was adopted there. Even Napoleon supposedly used a toothbrush that ...

It is not a tall claim. Hangji, a small town of 40 square kilometers, makes 80 percent of toothbrushes in China and accounts for 35 percent of the world's total. The town boasts more than 2,000 ...

Shuguang is just one of about 4,000 enterprises involved directly or indirectly in making toothbrushes in the township of Hangji in the city of Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province. So ...

NANJING: At a Sanxiao toothbrush factory in East China’s Jiangsu province, employees were carefully monitoring robotic arms performing precise injection moulding on the production line.

This photo taken on June 21, 2024 shows bristles of toothbrushes at an exhibition hall of Yangzhou Sanfeng BRUSH Co Ltd in Hangji township of Yangzhou city, East China's Jiangsu province.