Now this never really bothered me in the past but on hindsight I stick this thing in my mouth just like food so it would be good to know what its composed of. What really got me though is seeing toothbrushes that say whitening or antimicrobial which begs the question. Why is this whitening or antimicrobial? What the heck is in it that is doing this action??? Now that I think of it this might be more than mildly infuriating.

  • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    While manual brushing can effectively remove surface stains, electric toothbrushes are equipped with features that deliver a deeper clean, leading to a brighter smile.

    They clean stains off your teeth better so they prolly dont need to add shit to the brush if their ad claims are covered by just being mechanically better. Why add any operating cost adding actual agents that prolly won’t produce any noticeable difference from other mechanical brushes?

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      the antimicrobial suggests to me that it resists mircrobial growth on the brush over time rather than works better to remove microbes but now that I think of it maybe that is what it means although if it does then its one of those bs claims where its something that just happens by the nature of being a toothbrush. oh and manual brushes list antimicrobial,