How can I get smart with brushing my teeth?
AAsk yourself if you really need to. GaGu went hunting for statistics, but most of them were published by toothpaste companies so he’s not inclined to believe them. Instead, here are some he’s made up: 76% of people scrub their teeth with a manual toothbrush. Less than 0.01% of people use a smart toothbrush, and less than half of those people actually use all of the features as they’re intended. Three of them use it to brush their eyebrows.
Those figures are lies, but they do make a very good point about the occasional fallacy of ‘smart’. Do you want to open an app when it’s
time to buff your pearly whites with a Colgate E1 ($130) or the Sonicare DiamondClean Smart ($334)? Have your eyes even focused well enough to look at a Bluetoothaddled map of your mouth first thing? Perhaps it’s only Guru who doesn’t wake up properly until mid afternoon, and only then enough to get settled for a refreshing nap.
Alright, alright. If you’re serious about cleaning your gnashers, these oft-pricey bristlewands are an interesting experiment. Whether a toothbrush absolutely needs an app or not is a question for another day – there’s no better way to ensure you’re all clean than having a live-in dentist, and they tend to be rather expensive.
And if you love statistics, boy will you be happy with this: a smart toothbrush will generally let you flick through past mouth ablutions to see how well you’re battering plaque. But a two-minute timer on your phone and a decent electric brush will likely do you just as well.
If you love stats, a smart tooth -brush lets you flick through past mouth ablutions to see how well you’re battering plaque