The Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) here achieved another world record on Thursday when as many as 26,382 tribal students of the institute promoted oral hygiene through brushing their teeth simultaneously at a single venue.
The event was organised in partnership with the Indian Association of Public Health Dentistry (IAPHD) and the Colgate Palmolive India. The KISS broke the previous world record held by the DPS, Delhi in which 16,414 students had participated in mass brushing on January 7, 2016.
Odisha Ministers Sudam Marndi and Raghunandan Das, Guinness World Records representative Rishi Nath, Colgate Palmolive MD Ram Raghaban, IAPHD general secretary Sabyasachi Saha and KIIT & KISS founder Dr Achyuta Samanta witnessed the colourful event.
Notably also, the KISS students celebrated the National Tooth Brushing Day coinciding with the silver jubilee of IAPHD.
This is the fourth Guinness World Record created by the KISS. Earlier, it had set the double world record in 'largest human sentence’ reading "We urge for world peace” and 'Most simultaneous high-fives’ at the same event on a single day in December 2015. In August 2017, it created a world record for the ‘Largest Laughter Yoga Class’.