How did ancient civilizations clean their teeth?

Julian K

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I've been wondering this for a while.

How did people keep their teeth clean before the invention of conventional tooth brushes and tooth paste?

In ancient drawings, people were depicted as having white teeth like today, so how did they do it?
 
careful with this one. if life has taught you anything, paintings and the like aren't what's real. want white teeth? the painter is told to make your teeth and the rest of you perfect. ever wonder if mona lisa has a wig on, doesn't have any teeth at all or spots on her skin? however, until the intro of sugar and other cavity making foods into the human diet, wholesale, bad teeth and cavities weren't a big deal. want to brush your teeth in the 1300s or 1500s? table salt sprinkled on your fingers, rubbing your finger across bottoms and tops does the trick, then and now. earlier people in other parts of the world used baking soda with the finger trick. boy that really worked and cleaned/whitened at the same time. still works as most good toothpaste uses baking soda. whitens teeth and cleans for the price of a box of baking soda.
 
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