Redesign the toothbrush: A former student of New York’s School of Visual Arts, Leen Sadder, looked to the roots of oral hygiene to complete the task set by her professor. During her research she came ...

Sometimes sustainable design is not about creating new objects — it is often more effective to promote, re-design, or even re-package an existing product. Lebanese designer Leen Sadder probably came ...

In a case that stunned both doctors and locals, an 80-year-old man from Odisha underwent a rare surgery after accidentally swallowing a nine-inch tooth-cleaning stick, commonly known as miswak. The ...

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the World; and blessings and peace be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon all his Family and Companions. A fasting person may use a Miswak (tooth stick) anytime during ...

RIYADH, 17 September 2007 -- A study has revealed that the miswak or teeth cleaning sticks used in Arab and Asian countries have greater value than toothbrush and toothpaste. A group of dentists at ...

Our very own ‘atu’ or ‘pako’, as is popularly called by the Ibos and Yorubas, has now been fancifully branded ‘organic toothbrush’, ‘branch toothbrush’ in the western world and sold for around ...

This test-tube-like packaging was designed by New York-based Leadoff Studio to modernise the experience of cleaning your teeth with a stick. The designers were tasked with creating the functional ...