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. 2004 May;94(5):721.
doi: 10.2105/ajph.94.5.721.

Popularizing the toothbrush

Elizabeth Fee  1 , Theodore M Brown
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Popularizing the toothbrush

Elizabeth Fee et al. Am J Public Health. 2004 May.
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“Here we are coming to clean our teeth, clean our teeth, clean our teeth/Here we are coming to clean our teeth; and we do it night and morning.” Toothbrush Drill in New York City, photgrapher unknown, circa 1912–1913. Source. Prints and Photographs Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Md.
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