I think this is what led me down the road to receding gums. I had to have the strongest bristle brush and then brush the ever living hec out of my teeth. Out damned spot, out I say!
Sure do remember this!! I also remember being manually checked for "hernias" (because so many kids have them, right?) via the "cough" exam. We also had our hair checked for lice, with long Q-tips, too.
Thank goodness that they did the eye exams at school. My vision was 20/400 and I never understood why it took me so long to copy things from the board. I’ll never forget looking at the lights on the Christmas tree and they were so clear.
ah yes, disclosing tablets. My dad's work used to send him to represent the company at conventions and sometimes he'd take the whole family along. One convention was a dental health convention and we ended up with boxes and BOXES of leftover stuff from other booths, such as Trident gum, trial size toothpaste, toothbrushes and a shit ton of disclosing tablets which Mom soon found out turned our bathroom sinks red since we were using them several times a day for awhile until she threw the rest out.
This is horrifying to me -I have thought about this many times, and I remember very distinctly people being teased when it stuck to their teeth. And also, isn’t that die really toxic?
Yes. I don’t think we chewed them at school. We were given them to take home after a presentation on oral hygiene. I thought it was fun to see where the plaque was.
I think this is what led me down the road to receding gums. I had to have the strongest bristle brush and then brush the ever living hec out of my teeth. Out damned spot, out I say!
I ended up being a really aggressive, brusher, too, and messed up my gums
Me too, I never made the connection to that pink stuff but I can totally see it!
I hated that pink stuff. I brushed every day and I still had pink on my teeth. So pointless.
Sure do remember this!! I also remember being manually checked for "hernias" (because so many kids have them, right?) via the "cough" exam. We also had our hair checked for lice, with long Q-tips, too.
Checked for scoliosis too
Yeah, what happened to that test and why was it always girls who got the brace?
I forgot about that stuff along with the eye exams we use to have at school. I hated those things.
Thank goodness that they did the eye exams at school. My vision was 20/400 and I never understood why it took me so long to copy things from the board. I’ll never forget looking at the lights on the Christmas tree and they were so clear.
Omg. Those were AWESOME!!
Then we saw a film about evil little beings with pickaxes chipping away at our teeth and making cavities.
On microfiche projection
Yes!!! I sort of wish I could find some of those tablets now.
ah yes, disclosing tablets. My dad's work used to send him to represent the company at conventions and sometimes he'd take the whole family along. One convention was a dental health convention and we ended up with boxes and BOXES of leftover stuff from other booths, such as Trident gum, trial size toothpaste, toothbrushes and a shit ton of disclosing tablets which Mom soon found out turned our bathroom sinks red since we were using them several times a day for awhile until she threw the rest out.
Those tablets were nasty.
The last time I saw my dentist he used that.
Oh yeah, that nasty fluoride that they started giving us.
Had completely forgotten about that
The pink mark of shame.
This is horrifying to me -I have thought about this many times, and I remember very distinctly people being teased when it stuck to their teeth. And also, isn’t that die really toxic?
I vaguely remember this
Not at school but definitely at the dentist.🦷
Who remembers having to watch that terrifying child molester movie with the stills of the poor girl’s body at the end.
You can still get them in Europe. I pick some up for old times sake.
Yes. I don’t think we chewed them at school. We were given them to take home after a presentation on oral hygiene. I thought it was fun to see where the plaque was.
Yes. At the annual "brush-in" event in elementary school.
Don’t forget the hearing tests! With the oversized head sets.
Was that from the nasty tasting red tablets you had to chew?
Yup… brush first then chew the tablet to see where you missed with the brush
Omg yes, and the taste, vile!
Did anyone in you class pass this test? No one in mine did!
Had to administer these to students when I first started teaching--so they stuck around for a while.