Although dental hygiene should be important to everyone, it can sometimes slip by the wayside with the hectic lifestyles we lead in the UK, but now a new toothbrush application can help remind us when we need to brush our teeth, not only that, but it also rewards good hygiene with gold stars! The Beam toothbrush is aimed at children primarily, to help parents who are trying to teach their kids how to brush properly, and the smartphone app monitors the numbers of strokes and can even alert the user if they have forgotten to clean their teeth.
The device connects wirelessly to your phone and monitors daily progress; the inventors are hoping that it will help people in the UK take better care of their teeth, explaining that ‘the average person brushes their teeth for only 46 seconds, but is 50% more likely to brush their teeth for a full two minutes by using just a simple timer. Oral care is considered patient-centred, since oral health is impacted significantly by your daily hygiene habits.’
The aim of the Beam Brush is to raise awareness of the importance of good oral hygiene; CEO of the fastcoexist.com – the company who produce the app – said that ‘Nothing about how you brush your teeth changes at all, but what we can do while you’re brushing your teeth does change.’ The manual brush reacts to the body’s bio-electricity, then starts the timer and the information automatically updates to measure progress through the users phone.