The Worst Dental And Oral Hygiene Products

There are countless dental and oral hygiene products available on the market, including several that more people should be using.

For example, more people should wear a teeth retainer, not only after orthodontic care but also to treat some causes of temporomandibular disorder or bruxism.

However, along with the products that you need in your bathroom, there are many that do not work or can even cause problems in the future.

Here are some of the worst dental and oral hygiene products in recent history.

BreathAssure

Many people will have a breath mint or chew gum to try and remove smells from the inside of their mouth or reduce the smell of halitosis. However, there was one brand that took its boasting a little too far and got into serious trouble in the process.

The adverts claimed that the breath pill would freshen your breath from the inside of your stomach upward, could immediately work even if you had eaten garlic bread or a plate of onions, and claimed they worked for up to six hours.

The Better Business Bureau, the American counterpart to Trading Standards, disagreed with these claims, started an investigation, during which time a court order banned them from claiming that the product even worked.

Activated Charcoal

Every decade or so there is a fad in dentistry that causes more harm than good, and over the past ten years that fad has been activated charcoal.

Advertised by all manner of influencers as a natural way to get sparkling teeth without relying on the peroxides used in professional teeth whitening tools, activated charcoal does very little other than stopping certain kinds of medication from working and harshly scraping the enamel off of your teeth.

What makes this considerably worse is that many activated charcoal products do not contain fluoride either, meaning that the problem is compounded.

Colgate Kitchen Entrees

Colgate’s ill-fated attempt to enter the frozen ready meal market has become a legend in the world of ill-conceived products.

It is unclear whether Colgate Kitchen Entrees were actually meant to clean your teeth in the same way that dog dental sticks do, or whether they were like any other ready meal, but the world was not ready for a minty-fresh lasagne and so the idea quickly disappeared.