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Gillette Dental Floss
In 1815, a New Orleans dentist began advising his patients to use a silk thread to clean their teeth.
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In 1882, a company called the Codeman and the Shurtleft Company began marketing an unwaxed dental floss.
Since then, the variety of dental floss has expanded to include newer materials such as Gore-Tex, and different textures such as spongy floss and soft floss. Today's floss has other features to make flossing easier. Oral B's Super Floss is designed to help with flossing around braces or other dental appliances. Today, floss is a key part in maintaining your oral health.
This was followed in 1896 by the first dental floss from Johnson & Johnson. The New Jersey-based J&J took out a patient for dental floss in 1898 that was made from the same silk material used by doctors for silk stitches.
During the 1940's, nylon replaced silk as the material for dental floss-its consistent texture and resistance to shredding were an improvement over the silk versions.
The use of nylon also allowed for the development of waxed floss in the 1940s, and for the development of dental tape in the 1950s.