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On topic of dental innovation why isn't there a toothbrush with accelerator that would monitor which areas you've cleaned and where do you need to work more? Or even better: a device (like dentures) that you put in your mouth, bite on it and it brushes all your teeth at once
It's your lucky day: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=whole+mouth+toothbrush
I'm using dental floss → water pick (just water, no mouthwash) → electric toothbrush → tongue scraper. Literally everything takes 4 min and cost less than the Dyson.
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You'd rather your vacuum be made of metal?
Hell yeah! I've got a Rainbow from the late 1950s. It will probably outlive humanity and cleans better than anything else I've used.
What model is yours?
A purchasing decision for households: buy a $500 vacuum or a $500 toothbrush. Dyson competing with itself for limited consumer discretionary income on luxury purchases.
Never been less satisfied than having bought a Dyson vacuum. Cheap plastic construction
Mine v10 has 6 years, has seen some important falls, but bears no damage of any of those.
I wouldn't recommend it because price/quality Dyson vacuums feel like you're insanely over paying.
I've bought my grandma a 150$ Levoit LVAC-200-WEU, and I have used it a lot. I swear it lasts more than the v10 and it cleans better. It also feels much higher quality to touch.
It's cons are that it didn't come with a narrow tip to suck odd corners and that it's slightly heavier than the v10. But it costs also less than half and I see no victory at all for the Dyson product.
Do people on HN actually buy/like Dyson products? My impression is they're actually way overpriced relative to their quality/value, and get away with it due to effective marketing and aesthetic design. To be fair, I've never owned a Dyson product, but have used them, and they just seem meh at best. Just really surprised to see a Dyson announcement get upvotes on HN.
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Hell yeah! I've got a Rainbow from the late 1950s. It will probably outlive humanity and cleans better than anything else I've used.
All the vintage ones I've seen are mostly Bakelite, which is pretty brittle, especially as it ages. What model is yours?
It does have some Bakelite, but is mostly metal.
> Dyson CameraJet™ is clinically proven to be more effective in improving gum health by removing and preventing plaque buildup.² Vs a manual tooth brush. Notice they don't include ultrasonic and rotating brushes in that statement.
There isn't great evidence to suggest that electric toothbrushes are much better at removing plaque than manual. E.g. this metaanalysis [1] found basically no difference. There are also studies that show that electric is better, like this meta-analysis that found a small effect [2] and this Cochrane review. [3] What I generally read in articles is that the single biggest thing that makes a difference is brushing for…
The reason for that? It's obvious that flossing is going to help. Obviously brushing away cruft is better than not. So why waste the money on a boring study?
I can see the same for the electric toothbrush argument. Of course it's going to be at least as good if not incrementally better than me see-sawing my way around my mouth.
> the single biggest thing that makes a difference is brushing for the full 2 minutes, and electric toothbrushes can help with that by having a built-in timer
As someone who had toothbrushes for the longest time with a single 2 minute timer, and now has one with 4× 30s timers, I can say that the difference is radical.
I don't understand how I got bored in 2 minutes but I don't get bored in 4×30s, but I do not. Every quadrant gets the full time, and twice a day I do it for the full 2 minutes, no exceptions. That wasn't the case before.