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Dental floss (waxed) Levi Spear Parmly (1790-1859), a dentist from New Orleans, is credited with inventing the first form of dental floss. [4] In 1819, he recommended running a waxen silk thread "through the interstices of the teeth, between their necks and the arches of the gum, to dislodge that irritating matter which no brush can remove and which is the real source of disease."
DenTek Oral Care, Inc. is an American private company that develops, manufactures and markets oral care products. DenTek was founded in 1985 by John Jansheski. His father, John Jansheski, invented an at-home tartar removal device. [1] Their products are available in the United States, Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
In November 2015, Prestige Brands Holdings, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire DenTek Oral Care Inc. (DenTek), a privately-held marketer and distributor of oral care products for $225 million in cash. [9]
The origin of Glide (which is what the brand was called prior to the P&G acquisition) dates to 1971, when Bill Gore first used a Gore-Tex fiber to floss his own teeth; [1] Gore-Tex was the PTFE-based fiber he had invented as a "waterproof laminate". The company failed to market the product for more than three decades.
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