Now, a startup is trying to popularize a modern day stick-as-toothbrush in the U.S. The small stick, called a miswak (in Arabic, it’s literally a “tooth cleaning stick”), is trimmed from a ...

During her research she came across the benefits of the Miswak stick, a tooth-cleaning twig traditionally used mainly in the Middle East, Pakistan and India. With each use, the top is bitten off ...