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We reach for it twice a day — without thinking about the decades of research and engineering that went into that squeezable tube of minty goo. Zachary Crockett extracts the last bit.
- SOURCES:
- Stephan Habif, chief technology officer at Colgate-Palmolive.
- Sergio Leite, global head of Oral Care R&D at Colgate-Palmolive.
- Peter Miskell, professor of international business history at the University of Reading.
- EXTRAS:
- "History of Toothpaste" (Delta Dental of Arkansas, 2019).
- "Cavity Protection or Cosmetic Perfection? Innovation and Marketing of Toothpaste Brands in the United States and Western Europe, 1955–1985," by Peter Miskell (Business History Review, 2011).
- RESOURCES:
- "9,000-Year-Old Dentistry," by WIRED Staff (WIRED, 2006).
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