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[–] 49 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I feel like I’m pretty old but I don’t remember these at all.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago

    They did this once a year in every school I attended until I was in high school (military kid). I started high school in the mid 90s, and attended school in 4 different countries.

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  • [–] 46 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Literally never seen these ever in my life

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  • [–] 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    I forgot about them until this post. They were a thing dentists sometimes gave (in my experience) to help you tune your brushing technique. They would make areas you missed pink.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    That actually is nice.

    Like all bathroom habits, we were taught them before we could really think of them as anything other than ritual.

    For me, reducing them to science when I was 10 or so would really help. Granted I have genetically perfect teeth (through no effort of my own), so they might not have given them to me.

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  • [–] 34 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Do any of you old fuckers with the candies wanna step forward and explain

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  • [–] 26 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    These tablets show plaque buildup on your teeth in a grey to black color when you chew them.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    I recall plaquey teeth turning pink, not grey/black 🤔

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  • [–] 43 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    Oh boy. Probably easier to say what isn't wrong with me

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  • [–] 13 points 4 days ago (5 children)

    We're literally the same person.

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    I don't think you want to know how many things are seriously wrong with me.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 days ago (7 children)

    I can't tell if I'm way older or way younger or way poorer than OP.

    I went to an elementary school with 15 kids in the whole school. We were all on well water so every other week we went to the kitchen and swished fluoride for a minute.

    But I have no idea WTF these pink things are. Y'all had toofsbrushes?

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  • [–] 16 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    They're tablets used to highlight plaque / areas missed by brushing. Common tens of years ago in the PNW anyway, haven't really seen them in 10-15+ years though.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    Weird. Maybe a state-based thing? Never hard of them in the SW.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    You would have seen these only at the dentist. We had them in Oklahoma when I was a kid. (55 here.)

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  • [–] 22 points 3 days ago

    they gave you mdma in school????

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  • [–] 16 points 3 days ago

    I don't recall them at school, but got them occasionally at the dentist to help learn to brush properly. Chew it and brush till all the pink was gone.

    Our local school actually has sponsored dental treatments if people don't have their own so maybe it's a thing now.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    At school? Wtaf? My parents give me some at home as a “check this out” and so I could see the spots I was missing. My parents would have chewed the fuck out of a teacher if she heard they were making kids at school do it.

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  • [–] -2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Oh honey, back when these were in schools, teachers were smoking in class while beating kids for misbehaving...

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  • [–] 15 points 3 days ago

    Ok sweetie? My mum and dad came up in those sort of schools and told us about them, which is why they didn’t tolerate similar shit from my teachers. My mother went to a catholic school in the 60s-70s with nuns running classes. For those that know, that’s nuff said right there.

    So they were pretty militant on the “we’re paying for our kids to be educated, not traumatised, abused or really anything else but that” stuff. Not that we didn’t have our share of shit teachers to deal with but at least they weren’t able to beat us with 1m rulers I guess.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago

    Oh noooo…. I feel like this is going to knock loose a memory I wanted to keep forgotten

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  • [–] 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    I only remember ever having these at a dentist. When did schools check or care about your teeth?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    In Australia my public primary school had a small dental clinic inside the school, we got checkups twice a year for free.

    They didn't do any actual hardcore dentisting work like drilling for cavities ECT but they would check for issues and give the parents a summary so the parents could get any work done at a full dental clinic.

    I think they would check, clean, fluoride, floss, and check/adjust braces and that's about all. I think it was pretty standard.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago

    They strained my actual teeth for a couple of days and led to years and years of overbrushing. These little bastards are not my friends.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago* (1 child)

    Fuck is that?

    Edit: Nevermind, says it on the thing.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago*

    I have some at home and I chewed one a week or two and they taste great (the dentist gave them to me)

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    So we used to provide bullying tools?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Teachers used to be the biggest bully. Hence why older folks are fucked in the head.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    60 year old Canadian. I remember these as an occasional thing, like maybe during a dental promotion week? It wasn't like it happened all the time.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago

    I feel like I'm quite young compared to most people on here and I remember these

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    Our schools still do it afaik

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  • [–] 5 points 4 days ago

    So schools having massive overreach on children is nothing new, huh?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    Trauma unlocked...

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