Electric toothbrush
An electric toothbrush is a toothbrush that uses electric power to move the brush head, normally in an oscillating pattern, though electric toothbrushes are often called ‘rotary’ toothbrushes. In the late 1800s in the USA, a man named Dr. George A. Scott claimed to invent an “electric” toothbrush. However, unlike actual electronically-powered bristle brushes, Dr. Scott’s brush did not move on its own, and was not actually electrical at all. Like Dr. Scott’s other “electric brush” products, the device merely contained a magnet in the handle. The magnetic field was claimed to provide health benefits. [1] Although a true electric toothbrush was first conceived in 1880[2] and reliably sold in 1939 (in Switzerland), it took almost 30 years for the invention to be produced in the USA; the Broxodent, was a rotating electric toothbrush introduced by Squibb Pharmaceutical at the centennial of the American Dental Association in 1960.
