# Kalodont

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{{Short description|Toothpaste brand}}
{{for|the word game|Kaladont}}
thumb|Retro packaging of Kalodont Extra from 2024
thumb|Original Kalodont tooth "paste"
'''Kalodont''' is a [toothpaste](/source/toothpaste) brand by Croatian manufacturer [Saponia](/source/Saponia), based in [Osijek](/source/Osijek).<ref>{{Cite web |last=HT |date=12 November 2012 |title=Kada brend postane eponim – pasta za zube ili Kalodont? |url=https://www.poslovni.hr/lifestyle/kada-brend-postane-eponim-pasta-za-zube-ili-kalodont-272611 |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=Poslovni savjetnik |language=hr}}</ref>

The original product was manufactured by F. A. Sarg's Sohn & Co. from [Vienna](/source/Vienna), and sold in [Austria-Hungary](/source/Austria-Hungary) starting with 1887. It later became widely distributed, in 34 other countries, and obtained a near-monopoly status that caused the word "kalodont" to become synonymous with the word for "tooth paste" in [South Slavic languages](/source/South_Slavic_languages).<ref name=":0" /> It was also advertised and sold in [Russia](/source/Russia) in 1927.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kiaer |first1=Christina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7SBTUPKGxwYC&pg=PA148 |title=Everyday life in early Soviet Russia: taking the Revolution inside |last2=Naiman |first2=Eric |publisher=[Indiana University Press](/source/Indiana_University_Press) |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-253-21792-9 |page=148 |accessdate=2011-09-04}}</ref> Production, at the time based in [Yugoslavia](/source/Socialist_Federal_Republic_of_Yugoslavia), ceased in 1981,<ref name=":0">{{cite news |date=2011-01-20 |title=Zubne paste - kozmetika i higijena |trans-title=Toothpaste - Cosmetics and hygiene |url=http://www.poslovni.hr/vijesti/zubne-paste--kozmetika-i-higijena-169730.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919113326/http://www.poslovni.hr/vijesti/zubne-paste--kozmetika-i-higijena-169730.aspx |archive-date=19 September 2011 |accessdate=2011-09-04 |newspaper=[Poslovni dnevnik](/source/Poslovni_dnevnik) |language=Croatian}}</ref> but the product returned to the market in 2012, as Saponia attempted to revitalize its old brands.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2012-11-12|title=Nakon 20 godina Kalodont se vraća na tržište|url=https://www.poslovni-savjetnik.com/superprodavac/nakon-20-godina-kalodont-se-vraca-na-trziste|access-date=2022-02-07|website=Poslovni savjetnik|language=hr}}</ref>

Aside from being a toothpaste brand, the name is used for a popular [South Slavic word game](/source/Kaladont).

==See also==
{{Portal|Companies}}
*[List of toothpaste brands](/source/List_of_toothpaste_brands)
*[Index of oral health and dental articles](/source/Index_of_oral_health_and_dental_articles)
* [List of defunct consumer brands](/source/List_of_defunct_consumer_brands)

==References==
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Category:Products introduced in 1887
Category:Products and services discontinued in 1981
Category:Brands of toothpaste

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