What did people do before the inventions of toothbrushes?

Question

It seems like if people nowadays don’t brush their teeth often, they diminish and rot until they fall out. Before the toothbrush was invented, did people just lose all their teeth by their 20s? And how do animals teeth stay clean?

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Answer 1

Miswak, essentially a stick you chew on from a specific plant, was traditionally used before toothbrushes were a thing