An expert in Dentistry in Ilorin, Kwara State, Dr Alatishe Muhammad, has warned that using toothpick to remove food remnant from teeth could harm the teeth and gums.
''I am pleading for us to look into more production of some of these things in our society especially the necessities like the matchbox, the toothpick, cotton bud, sanitary pads, and stuff like that.
Fomer kaduna lawmaker and member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Shehu Sani has stated that lifting of ban on products such as toothpicks, cement and other agricultural products that are produced in Nigeria, is a disastrous economic strategy. This statement
Our businessmen in one region somewhere in Nigeria would rather import containers of toothpick, than set up a factory for it. Everybody is importing containers upon containers of shit and bragging about it.
I'll clean the area with a surgical scrub and then make some marks with gentian violet [a topical antiseptic] on a disposable toothpick. Once I'm comfortable with the marks, I'll have you look.
4)Whenever we cooked Moi-Moi,Of coz I was the one that did all the peeling, Grinding and all, She only had to scoop into leaves or nylon,She wud pack all the Bones and fish heads into some of them, Use toothpick on them so as to recognise them