Brushing up on hygiene - Oral Health - Brief Article

Men's Fitness, April, 2002 by Mike Carlson, Allan Donnelly, Ben Kallen, Bobby Lee, Mark Thorpe, Tom Weede

WHEN caring for your pearly whites, you can always use some help. We like the Sonicare toothbrush. Loaded with a 31,000-strokes-a-minute motor and gentle pulsating sonic waves that remove more than twice as much plaque as your manual model, this latest spin on the old hand job gives new meaning to oral care.

Perhaps the best part of the brush is its built-in timer. Most people brush for 30 seconds or less and generally concentrate too much on one area. The rechargeable Sonicare has a built-in two-minute timer that beeps every 30 seconds to remind you to move into another quadrant of your mouth. Sonicare brushes begin at $80 and are available wherever health-care products are sold.