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Hey, Brainstuff, Lauren Bulgabom here with a classic Brainstuff episode.

I don't know about you, but I often take for granted the everyday hygiene products that I use.

Hand soap, toothpaste, toilet paper, that is, unless I unexpectedly run out.

But, of course, although hygiene has been around forever, the specific formulations of products

that we use are pretty new. Today's classic gets into the history of toothpaste.

Hey, Brain Stuff, Lauren Vogelbaum here. Without teeth, life is tough. Sure,

we have all sorts of fancy dentistry tricks these days, but nothing tops the chompers were born with.

In fact, when rocker Patty Smith gave the commencement address at the Pratt Institute in New York in

2010, she gave those graduating

seniors some incredibly sound advice. She said, now that I'm here, my greatest urge is to speak to

you of dental care. My generation had a rough go daintily. Our dentists were the army dentists who

came back from World War II and believed that the dental office was a battleground. You have a better chance

at dental health. And it may be true that our big dental procedures are considerably better

than they were in the middle of the last century, but it's the maintenance that Smith was probably

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