With the end of a stick or what?
2007-03-26 15:00:39 · 26 answers · asked by Destiny 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Geez...calm down people...I didn't mean actually brushed their teeth. I just meant, like what do you think the may have chewed on or something! It is possible they had their own methods for dealing with these problems.Even some animals do to a degree.
2007-03-26 15:19:59 · update #1
What a funny, refreshing question. I love thinking of obscure things as this.
I think that cavemen brushed their teeth with bark. It would be soft enough, not too scraping or abrasive...yet just abrasive enough to clean off what they chose to.
Some other thoughts . . . maybe they . . . Chewed on some tar or sap...rubbed some animal leather across their teeth...made a 'paste' of some water and sand and rubbed that across the teeth surface...rubbed some more soft yet still abrasive fruit peel such as pineapple or orange peel across the teeth.
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2007-03-26 15:05:52 · answer #1 · answered by onelight 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Probably after they got done shaving and applying deodorant, they selected a fuzzy cat tail from the nearby pond, and smeared it with an herbal paste made of mint and juniper berries.
Cavemen didn't brush their teeth!
The closest thing to a factual answer to this is that they probably chewed on something to keep their teeth healthy. Such as whale blubber, for example.
2007-03-26 22:05:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't even know if they did. They must've had some funkafying bad breath. I guess they would find some mint leaves somewhere and rub those into their teeth. They probably still had more teeth than some of my countrymen. Socialized medicine is a bloody shambles.
2007-03-26 22:05:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Haven't you ever seen the Flintstones? Fred would stick a little bird in his mouth that would eat up all of his food fragments. It's what I do and you should too.
2007-03-27 04:16:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question!Better yet how did they deal with a toothache if they had one?I`m with you on that one,(cleaning their teeth)probably with a stick or maybe a bone.
2007-03-26 23:13:20 · answer #5 · answered by pumpkin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Crest Spinbrush & Colgate; what else?
⥠Clare.
2007-03-26 22:03:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think they did. Hygiene didn't come into play for several thousand years. And they had other things to think about, such as eating and staying alive. And they didn't have things to eat that would cause them to have cavities, like sweets, like we do today.
2007-03-26 22:09:47 · answer #7 · answered by kitten lover3 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They chewed on a stick.
2007-03-26 22:03:23 · answer #8 · answered by Duffman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously they didnt - I think they had much bigger worries and plus havent you read any history - there were hardly any standards for hygiene even up in the middle ages if not longer, they wouldnt have known that it was important to do.
2007-03-26 22:04:05 · answer #9 · answered by radiancia 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm gonna go call the one from geico and ask...just wait!
2007-03-26 22:06:45 · answer #10 · answered by LanternPrime 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋