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Important question, are verification cans bad for my teeth?
Oh ffs this is ridiculous. Wtf does a toothbrush need internet?
To collect data for advertisers and health officials. To add a subscription to turning on your tooth brush.
To adequately measure your brushing habits and tell you which teeth you are missing or not brushing enough?
And that’s what you get for buying an internet toothbrush.
Yeah, this is kind of on you.
If you spend your money on a “smart” toothbrush, expect it to do “smart” stuff.
I have a “smart” toothbrush, I have never logged into it or connected to to anything but the charging block. It still has multiple modes and buzzes when I’ve been brushing a quadrant for 30 seconds.
So does my non-internet-connectable dumb electric toothbrush
And soon with AI, smart things will get even smarter.
LOL, I thought this was a joke.
That’s kinda on you, dude. Nothing is stopping you from subscribing to toothbrush premium with mouth-print authentication. Before you start whining, no, you don’t actually have to listen to the two minutes of ads for sour candy, transmitted directly through your jaw bones. You can always upgrade to add-free. It’s only like $10 per month.
Toothbrush premium has been sunset and replaced by toothbrush plus by popular customer demand.
It’s superior features have a newly redesigned the consumer experience. Ads can be skipped. Up to three times to be reviewed at a later date.
Of course we also have the new ultra premium subscription model for the low price of 9,99 per week where you can submit your ad preferences!
Dude, you must have just void someone’s patent idea xD
$10 per month? I thought it was $10 per tooth…
No, it’s a flat fee, but you get a 10% discount off of tooth implant services provided by our network of dentists whom we charge 20% to participate in our exclusive market.
And now, a premium ad from our sponsored doctor, Dr. Dentoothio…
Same thing with only one tooth left
I gave up on electric toothbrushes. My dentist recommended them, I used them, got two infections in six months where I had no issues for years. Returned to normal brushes three years ago, no more infections.
They are definitely, without a question, much more effective at cleaning your teeth. My guess is coincidence vs. you had a poor technique when it came to using them
Or bought a bad model, some electric toothbrushes just have a vibrating handle and that doesn’t transfer much to actual brushing benefit. I do notice the ones where the brush actually spins or oscillates make a huge difference.
not all electric brushes are made equal. my dad’s best friend is an oral surgeon so i know a fair bit about teef
PSA that boar bristle and horse hair toothbrushes are available and fantastic
Yeah those are shaving brushes.
Lmao imagine trying to fit those in your mouth
Mine is badger hair
Having been near a horse before, I’ll take my chances with the microplastics.
Vile creatures.
Dangerous at both ends and clever in the middle
I know it’s a common saying but I take issue with the clever in the middle haha. I’ve been around enough of them to know they’re dumb as fence posts, with a slight advantage to the post
Just the other day there was a comment about a horse going crazy to the point of death because a paper lantern landed in its pasture. While the thread overall did convince me that releasing them is an asshole thing to do (another comment mentioned one burnt down a hay barn near them and it clicked just how stupid it is to just fly a candle surrounded in paper out to land where it will), it didn’t do horse intelligence reputation any favours.
I feel bad for all the horses they kill to satisfy your toothbrush fetish.
Is this a meme? The hair is collected from grooming horses. It would be so uneconomical to kill horses for something they produce far more effortlessly than milk
I was going for ridiculous exaggeration. I think I want ridiculous enough
Yes, every time a horse needs to be groomed, it’s a death sentence for them. Well, some horses think they coulda’ had died. It coulda’ happened that way you know. But they all somehow survive.
Interestingly enough, or not, at one time horse hair was the most popular material to make all kinds of brushes out. There were millions of horses, and they all needed to have their manes and tails groomed and cut several times a year. So there was a renewable and never ending supply. People were happy, and the horses were happy.
But, then came WW1. And along with all the guns, artillery, and ammunition needed to feed these engines death and destruction, copious amounts of other far more mundane items were also required by soldiers. And one of those mundane items were shaving brushes.
Soldiers are required to shave every day no matter what. So that meant every solider needed a shaving kit. This meant the military needed to supply a razor, blades, shaving soap, and a shaving brush to every solider. And the cheapest and most abundant brush to buy in bulk, was horse hair. But there soon was a problem.
Turns out all that patriotic horses were being sent to war to get killed just like all the men. And that in the western world, horse hair quickly was in short supply. And the soldiers still needed shaving brushes.
So, the brush factories started importing horse hair brushes from the Far East, mainly China. And because the Chinese either didn’t understand that horse hair needs to be sterilized, or it was just Chinese businessmen being Chinese, they skipped that step and didn’t tell anyone. And soon soldiers were being infected with tetanus and dying at an alarming rate. It is one thing to send your soldiers to die in the face of machine-gun fire, and a whole 'nother thing to waste them dying from tetanus infected shaving brushes instead. So they panicked switched to boar bristle brushes instead.
And so great was the fear of cheap imported horse hair shaving brushes from the Orient, that the US passed a Federal law banning the importation of horse hair brushes or horse hair and even the manufacture of those brushes in the US. A prohibition that lasted until recently. Other nations enacted similar bans or implemented strict rules regarding in manufacture and sale. And so horse hair shaving brushes faded from consumers minds.
The last horse hair shaving brush manufacturer in the west, an old Spanish company-- Vie-Long, finally quit making them a few years ago now. (I own and regularly use 3 of them). So new horse hair shaving brushes are now extinct. And that includes the rare and heavily fetishized horse hair tooth brushes.
Fortunately, you can get synthetic shaving knots and tooth brushes that very good these days. And so people with those peculiar fetishes can continue their private kinks.
The last horse hair shaving brush manufacturer in the west, an old Spanish company-- Vie-Long, finally quit making them a few years ago now
WHAT. i have been lazy and wanting to buy a new one for my skull and not doing that. what about horsehair shoe polish brushes? I just like the feeling of hair on my skull. plastic brushes don’t clean right.
Yeah, you’ve been lazy along with me. I wanted another one of their shaving brushes. I think they still offer badger hair shaving brushes. For real natural brushes you have your choice of either badger hair or boar bristle. Badger is the most popular for shaving brushes followed by boar which is stiffer and can feel “scritchier” if you are looking for that. Though it takes a bit of use to get a good boar brush’s bristles to start splitting at the tips and then it provides a soft feel.
Those people that dislike the fact that the boar and badger need to be all in on making a shaving brush, favor the synthetics. And I do have a couple that I find pretty nice. But there is a difference in the feel between natural hair/bristle and plastic.
i would, but i’ve met horses.
💩 No one expects the enshittification! 💩
“Brushing experience”. Every morning is an adventure.
Did you remember to drink a verification can of Mountain Dew?
Internet of things was a mistake
Nah.
Like it often tends to be, the mistake wasn’t the concept itself, but rather letting some of the worst and least qualified people get away with any fuckery they want in the neverending quest for short term profits and shareholder dividends.
The IOT could DEFINITELY be a vehicle for actual convenience with no drawbacks for consumers if we would just have and enforce laws and regulations favoring their experience over the profits of misery-makers.
i agree with your philosophy bit i still think the instability thay comes from the added complexity always outweighs the use
I won’t buy smart anything, except a phone.
And when they stopped supporting your device, your teeth will look like this
Wait isn’t this like an escalator that’s broken just becoming stairs?
A smart toothbrush that’s broken just becomes a toothbrush
If you don’t login the bristle cover stays locked in place
Nothing a pair of needle-nose pliers couldn’t fix.
Yeah, sure, if THAT subscription is up to date.
Or a hammer.
