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.
So we used to provide bullying tools?
Teachers used to be the biggest bully. Hence why older folks are fucked in the head.
When we grew up and went to school there were certain teachers who would hurt the children in any way they could.
All in all. You’re just another brick in the wall.
I have some at home and I chewed one a week or two and they taste great (the dentist gave them to me)
they gave you mdma in school???
Literally never seen these ever in my life
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.
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.
That’s nice, I wish I had those as a kid. Instead my mother would painfully wrench my mouth open and inspect it because she was a drunk asshole.
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.
I feel like I’m quite young compared to most people on here and I remember these
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.
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?
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.
Weird. Maybe a state-based thing? Never hard of them in the SW.
You would have seen these only at the dentist. We had them in Oklahoma when I was a kid. (55 here.)
We got them in elementary school during an assembly about brushing and flossing
Ah. I didn’t go to one of those until I was 19 or 20. (See: earlier mention of poverty)
38 year old Australian here… What the hell is this?
Dental stuff. It stains the stuff that builds up on your teeth when don’t brush (plaque), so you can see where you’re missing when brushing. Mostly given to kids who insist they’re brushing properly, right after they’ve brushed; to demonstrate they likely aren’t. You can get ‘em here too, but they’re usually given out in dental practices not schools.
We had an assembly where we got a kit that had like a toothbrush and travel toothpaste and floss in it that came with a couple of these. I think the idea was to make sure all the kids got at least some exposure to proper dental hygiene in case their parents weren’t doing it. You weren’t supposed to eat the tablet at school so everyone could see you didn’t brush though, I’m sure plenty of kids did anyway.
Very interesting, thank you for the response I genuinely had no idea this was a thing.
No worries, glad it helped.
Our schools still do it afaik
Do any of you old fuckers with the candies wanna step forward and explain
These tablets show plaque buildup on your teeth in a grey to black color when you chew them.
I recall plaquey teeth turning pink, not grey/black 🤔
Truth is, I have protanopia, so I see some colors different and my memory of it was pink as grey. It was also 40 years ago lol.
the image that shows up if you google “disclosing tablets” shows someone with bright pink teeth.
Comador must have had mega plaque. :)
Trauma unlocked…
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.
Oh honey, back when these were in schools, teachers were smoking in class while beating kids for misbehaving…
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.
So schools having massive overreach on children is nothing new, huh?
