An oral care implement comprises a head portion and handle portion comprising resiliently folding appendages. The appendages extend laterally outwards from a central body of the handle portion in opposite directions. In one embodiment, the appendages may each have annular loop structures with recurvant ends coupled to the body. The head portion comprises tooth cleaning elements such as bristles. The head portion, handle portion, and bristles may be a monolithic construction of a resiliently deformable material with elastic memory. The bristles may be especially pliable and adapted for infant or toddler use. The appendages have an undeformed width preventing the young child from over-insertion into the oral cavity when at maximum span. The appendages may be folded against the body for deeper insertion into the oral cavity by an adult. The implement is configured to prevent the head portion and tooth bristles from contacting a flat surface when placed thereon.

Provided is a brush head for cleaning a surface of skin of a face. Tip-end-curved bristle bundles and tapered bristle bundles are implanted in a plurality of implantation holes of an implantation base portion so that the tip-end-curved bristle bundles and the plurality of tapered bristle bundles have the same height. The tip-end-curved bristle bundles are implanted in implantation holes at an outermost peripheral part of the implantation base portion, and form an outer-peripheral tip-end-curved-bristle bundle group. The tapered bristle bundles are implanted in implantation holes in an inner region relative to the outer-peripheral tip-end-curved-bristle bundle group, and form an inner tapered-bristle bundle group. The inner tapered-bristle bundle group includes a center tapered-bristle bundle row formed of ones of the tapered bristle bundles, the ones being implanted in implantation holes on a center cross line that crosses a center of the inner region, and other ones of the tapered bristle bundles than the ones forming the center tapered-bristle bundle row and the tip-end-curved bristle bundles are implanted in a symmetrical arrangement on both sides relative to the central cross line.

An oral care implement (100) including at least multi-component bristle. The oral care implement (100) comprises a handle (120); a head (110) coupled to the handle (120); at least one bristle tuft extending from the head, the at least one bristle tuft comprises at least one multi-component bristle (200) comprising coextruded core (210) and sheath components (220), the sheath component (220) surrounding a first portion (215) of the core component (210), and a second portion (216) of the core component (210) protruding from the sheath component (220) at a tip portion (230) of the multi-component bristle (200); the sheath component (220) comprises a first plastic and a first oral care additive; the core component (210) comprises a second plastic and a second oral care additive, wherein the first oral care additive is different than the second oral care additive.

A powered toothbrush and toothbrush head comprise a transmission housing; a substantially disk-shaped bristle carrier; a plurality of first bristle tufts arranged on the bristle carrier along a first virtual circle; and a plurality of second bristle tufts arranged on the bristle carrier along a second virtual circle, the second virtual circle being concentric with and having a smaller diameter than the first virtual circle, wherein each of the plurality of first bristle tufts includes a plurality of bristles of a first type, having a tapered form.

Rotating dental systems and related guards and methods are disclosed. In some instances, a guard may be configured to prevent material from building up on at least a portion of the dental system. The guard may be configured to prevent materials from being discharged from the dental system. In some embodiments, the guard may also be configured to direct the flow of material along a portion of the dental system. Some guards within the scope of this disclosure comprise bristles.

A lice brush includes a body that supports a plurality of bristles. The body also includes a handle. One or more of the plurality of bristles is configured for use in brushing a user's hair for lice. In particular, one or more of the bristles includes recesses, grooves, indentations, notches, pits or similar inwardly-extending spaces configured to facilitate removal of lice as the bristles pass through the hair. Multiple bristles can be provided in a bristle unit and multiple bristle units can be employed in a bristle assembly of the brush.

A method of producing a dental arch toothbrush (100), including the steps of detecting (S101) a dental arch shape (101) of a patient; and milling (S102) the dental arch shape (101) out of a disk (103) in which the bristles (105) of the dental arch toothbrush (100) are embedded.

A mascara brush includes from bristles, wherein the bristles have a solid round or oval cross section with a diameter of about 6 mil, a twisted wire core holding the bristles, the twisted wire core includes 11 to 13 bristles per turn (equivalent to 210?270 bristles per standard size of 27 mm?28 mm brush); and the brush has an average brush diameter between 7.4 mm to 8.2 mm.

An oral care implement comprises a head portion and handle portion comprising resiliently folding appendages. The appendages extend laterally outwards from a central body of the handle portion in opposite directions. In one embodiment, the appendages may each have annular loop structures with recurvant ends coupled to the body. The head portion comprises tooth cleaning elements such as bristles. The head portion, handle portion, and bristles may be a monolithic construction of a resiliently deformable material with elastic memory. The bristles may be especially pliable and adapted for infant or toddler use. The appendages have an undeformed width preventing the young child from over-insertion into the oral cavity when at maximum span. The appendages may be folded against the body for deeper insertion into the oral cavity by an adult. The implement is configured to prevent the head portion and tooth bristles from contacting a flat surface when placed thereon.

Rotating dental systems and related guards and methods are disclosed. In some instances a guard may be configured to prevent material from building up on at least a portion of the dental system. The guard may be configured to prevent materials from being discharged from the dental system. In some embodiments, the guard may also be configured to direct the flow of material along a portion of the dental system. Some guards within the scope of this disclosure comprise bristles.