Toothbrush design: adapting for the future

The Mentadent Adaptor is a novel toothbrush developed to gently deliver exc ellent oral health benefits combining optimal plaque control with oral hard and soft tissue care. It has outer tufts individually mounted in an elasto mer to allow flexibility under toothbrushing pressures, enabling adaptation to the surface contours of the oral cavity. These unique properties could not be measured using conventional methods and therefore, oral metrology, a new technique that enables microscopic changes in both soft and hard tissu e to be quantified, was used to determine the effect of the toothbrush, in combination with toothpastes of different abrasivity, on soft and hard tiss ues, a further study compared the performance of the Mentadent Adaptor at m aintaining gingival health with that of an internationally recognised tooth brush. It was concluded that the Mentadent Adaptor toothbrush is effective at maintaining oral health, and offers a measurable advantage over an inter nationally recognised toothbrush at reducing gingival bleeding and plaque a ccumulation. Furthermore it is potentially kinder to the hard and soft oral tissues.