[roadcat]

I recently read an article about dentists finding microbeads from toothpaste stuck in patients’ gum lines.

Nice. I sometimes swallow a bit of toothpaste after brushing my teeth. Now I might die of starvation. From the article:

And when they eat the beads, the plastic bits don't just pass through the animals' stomachs like normal food. Instead, the beads often become lodged in their stomachs or intestines. When this happens, the animals can stop eating and die of starvation, or suffer other health problems.

[EvilCapitalist]

Doesn’t the same thing happen when you swallow bubble gum?