The earliest toothbrushes were chewing sticks used by Babylonians. The Chinese invented the first bristle brush around 1600 A.D. By the early 1800's, many people owned manufactured toothbrushes.
The origin of toothbrushes is the chewingsticks used by Babylonians in 3500 BC. As years passed chewingsticks become the size of the pencil. The twigs found in chinese literature.