Bleh. These were gross

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• SingularEye@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  they gave you mdma in school???

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• XiJinpingStanAccount@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Literally never seen these ever in my life

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• tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like I’m pretty old but I don’t remember these at all.

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  • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m older (50s) and was given these in school as a kid. They were more common in the 1960-1970s but dwindled in popularity after.

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  • Jiggle_Physics@quokk.au ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They did this once a year in every school I attended until I was in high school (military kid). I started high school in the mid 90s, and attended school in 4 different countries.

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• IsaacscatNala@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have some at home and I chewed one a week or two and they taste great

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• hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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?

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  • AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Weird. Maybe a state-based thing? Never hard of them in the SW.

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• Malica@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So we used to provide bullying tools?

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• ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• CTDummy@piefed.social ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh honey, back when these were in schools, teachers were smoking in class while beating kids for misbehaving…

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    • CTDummy@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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• T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I liked the taste lol

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  • TrackShovel@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The fuck is wrong with you?

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh boy. Probably easier to say what isn’t wrong with me

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  • JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Me too. I actually asked the dentist for them.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Cherry medicine flavor, yea or nay?

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nay

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• arudesalad@piefed.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I feel like I’m quite young compared to most people on here and I remember these

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• DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I only remember ever having these at a dentist. When did schools check or care about your teeth?

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  • Stormy@thelemmy.club ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My school checked us for scoliosis.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In Australia my public primary school had a small dental clinic inside the school, we got checkups twice a year for free.

    They didn’t do any actual hardcore dentisting work like drilling for cavities ECT but they would check for issues and give the parents a summary so the parents could get any work done at a full dental clinic.

    I think they would check, clean, fluoride, floss, and check/adjust braces and that’s about all. I think it was pretty standard.

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  • lifeinlarkhall@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah we had a dental van come to school but it was still only in the van you had to have these when they did the check up, not in front of the class 😅

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• LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh noooo…. I feel like this is going to knock loose a memory I wanted to keep forgotten

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• Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Our schools still do it afaik

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• daggermoon@piefed.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fuck is that?

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  • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For anyone wondering, they would stain the plaque on your teeth so if you didn’t brush it would show.

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• jobbies@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Trauma unlocked…

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