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Are electric toothbrushes better than manual ones?

July 18, 2005

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One type is: the kind with a rotation-oscillation action, such as the Braun Oral B plaque remover. That's the take-home message from an analysis of 42 studies involving 3,855 patients, published in April by the Cochrane Collaboration, a nonprofit international organization that evaluates medical research. (Full article: 247 words)