17 April 2005

Electric gadgets get the brushoff

Me: I've laways been a little suspicious of battery gadgets that do what we can do for ourselves relatively easily. It's also a matter of adding more batteies to landfill. So I was interested to knote this: "an exhaustive review of 42 dental trials, involving 3,800 participants, shows the old-style brush is just as effective." Only one type of electric brush showed up better. However, the rider is also that you need to brush for c 2mins not the average 40 seconds and you need to brush into the gum line [therefore a softer brush may be in order or you'll lose some gum like I did at one point].



The Observer | UK News | Electric gadgets get the brushoff:

No comments:

Review: It happened in Hell

 It seemed to me that this book set out to do two main things. One was to demonstrate that so many of our notions of what goes under the lab...