Toothpick

Toothpick

Toothpicks, we pick it to get pricked every time we have food. Used sparingly as a method of teeth cleaning, toothpicks have been around for as long we have been eating. But have you ever thought when did have you ever thought when did the picking history started.

Toothpicks groove have been found in the teeth of prehistoric human indicating fashioned from bird claws, bones, ivory, shells, quills of walrus. In fact, evidence exists that shows signs of Neanderthals picking their teeth before history were recorded. Until the inventions of the toothbrush, the dental tool of choice was a twig or sharpened stick. At times even the grass was used as a flossing medium. Bronze toothpicks have also been found as committal objects in some prehistoric graves in Italy and Switzerland. The Roman produced fancy examples in silver and mastic wood. The fabulously decadent Roman Emperor Nero once entered a banquets hall with a sporty silver toothpick lodged in his mouth, causing quite a stir, by the time the 17^th century rolled around the toothpick had reached its zenith as a luxury item made from precious metals ser with gemstone. The less fortunate made do with porcupine quills or twigs as they had for centuries. The toothpicks we know today came about as the result of the industrial revolution, and the invention of the automatic toothpick making machine by Charles Forster. The Cinnamon toothpick was born 1949, made by drugstore owner August T.