It’s not the price of your toothbrush but how you use it | Letters

Responding to an article by Emine Saner, Gemma Hooson writes that there are no shortcuts to oral hygiene. Plus a letter by David Duell Emine Saner offers a fascinating survey of the expensive toothbrush tech on offer ( The rise of Big Toothbrush: how did our mouths become such a lucrative market? , 22 September ).

As a dental hygienist, however, I remind patients at every appointment that this simple fact remains: the best way to maintain oral hygiene is to brush for two minutes at least twice daily and to floss daily. No toothbrush offers a short-cut solution to this, no matter how expensive. A premium toothbrush risks becoming like a gym membership: reassuring to have, perhaps, but something that makes no…