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Steven M. Johnson's Bizarre Invention #93: The Whole Mouth Dental Appliance

Never brush your teeth again

By Steven Johnson - March 29, 2017

In an age of technology, why drag a primitive brush back and forth across your teeth?

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Steven Johnson

Sideline business as cartoonist specializing in quirky invention ideas since 1966. Author of 8 books: What the World Needs Now; Public Therapy Buses (two editions); Have Fun Inventing; Patent Depending: Vehicles;Patent Depending: Armbrella; Patent Depending: The Early Years; Patent Depending: A Collection; and Noodlings Coloring Book

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Sasha Lopoukhine

2 years ago

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I have a feeling that I found out about these guys from this site, but here goes:
http://www.blizzident.com
Theirs is different in that it is not motorised, but relevant nonetheless.

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  Sasha Lopoukhine
  
  2 years ago
  
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  Yes, Sasha. I love to think up products that I imagine the public would want. My 1990 cartoon-invention anticipated the Blizzident product by 23 years! I have always bypassed the real work of product design in favor of crafting an illustration of a product that looks as if it works, even if it doesn't.
  
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Steven Johnson

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I need to point out that my Whole Mouth Dental Appliance was thought up, drawn and first published in 1990. Twenty-three years later, a company called Blizzident offered an actual "whole mouth brushing system" very similar to my concept.

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