@yakkoTDI Yeesh. I remember that ad, just barely. And I recall having just learned that a beaver’s teeth are naturally yellow, and never stop growing; that made their choice of mascot/spokescritter a little absurd.
@mikesmells Wouldn’t a dentist be secretly selling the opposite of dental and oral hygiene items on the side, to increase the number of people that need dental work?
@brennyn@Kyeh@mikesmells Dentists don’t need to push tooth-work-generating dietary items, they have McDonalds (et al) doing a very efficient job of it for them.
@brennyn@Kyeh@mikesmells@werehatrack I’ve never understood why nature/evolution/whatever made dental issues so painful. I mean, sure - if Ogg breaks an arm or leg while mammoth hunting, the pain will make him favor the sore limb so it may heal in some fashion. But tooth issues don’t repair themselves, no matter how you baby them.
Just a cruel joke?
@brennyn@Kyeh@macromeh@mikesmells@werehatrack My kid came from Cambodia at nearly 10. I was told she had used a toothbrush on occasion, although on what occasion I don’t know as I had to show her what it was and how to use it. She did not have one cavity. She was the curiosity object at the dental school. They finally concluded that this was because of the diet she ate in Cambodia. Being poor it was rice with bugs for protein, mangos stolen from trees, fish caught without a net or fishing rod, sucked marrow out of bones and ate small bones like fish head bones (so her molars were pretty ground down)… Likely a lot closer to the diet of when our teeth first evolved.
why nature/evolution/whatever made dental issues so painful
I’m guessing it’s because tooth infections can lead to meningitis or brain abcesses, so every part of the head is super-well supplied with nerves? I’ve heard that ear infections are excruciating too.
@Kyeh@macromeh@mikesmells@werehatrack I had an abscess and didn’t know until my dentist went “OOPS” while drilling for something else and a lot of things drained and the assistant puked.
@Kidsandliz@rpg714@werehatrack Hard bristles are great, if the job you’re trying to do is to strip all the enamel off your teeth. If you brush correctly, soft bristles remove MORE plaque and gunk than hard bristles. Ask your dentist. You do have a dentist, don’t you?
@ellett I have a dentist. He remarks about what good shape my teeth are in, other than the 40(+)-year-old fillings, and how little plaque he has to chip loose. I shall continue to do what I have long done, TYVM, and the rest of you are welcome to do what works for you. The conventional wisdom produced abysmal results for me, so I ignore it immoderately.
@ellett@werehatrack The toothbrushes that my dentist sends home with me after a semiannual checkup/cleaning have fairly stiff bristles. If she’s happy with the results they provide, works for me.
i recently switched to a manual soft after using electric for years. even in gentle setting I had some gum irritation and wanted to help it recover, the soft manual really helped and though it was strange to remember how to use it, i felt it helped. i might move back to electric but for a while I think changing to soft manual was good.
@pmarin These are nicely soft. Not too flimsy, but not stiff at all. I just ran upstairs to check that this is what I’m using before pulling the buy trigger. I thought I would hate the rubber bits in there because if it squeaked or felt weird at all…I hardly notice them. I used to use the Colgate Total model and lament it’s retirement.
@Kidsandliz sadly, these do come in red in the retail stores. I just tossed my red one. It might have passed for Georgia Red, but it had shimmer in the color so I guess you could call it Fancy Bulldog
@IndifferentDude@robson@tweezak Eep. I didn’t look at any of the vids, but I was able to quickly determine that there are more than just a couple. [shudder]
I will decline to post links. The curious investigator can doubtless find them in short order.
@IndifferentDude@robson@werehatrack LOL!! Made you look! I just implied that I was gonna go find some and then didn’t. I have learned not to go searching for things I can’t unsee.
I’m still using the toothbrush that I put into service 7 years ago, which I had stashed in a drawer because they had discontinued that design 10 years before that. Somehow, I don’t think I need to buy 20 toothbrushes.
@Kidsandliz@mehvid1 Incorrect on all counts. It gets used daily, it’s not worn out, it’s also not soft bristle, and it does the job. Back before I switched to this kind of brush, I had lots of cavities, and was using soft brushes. I abandoned both. Unfortunately, I have no idea where to get one exactly like it at this point. And I’m going to be pissed off as hell if I can’t find something as good when this one finally does wear out. Which, eventually, it will. But not just yet.
@Kidsandliz@werehatrack Just to be pedantic, I’ll point out you’re saying Liz is actually correct in that they DO wear out. As for my comment… a silly joke.
@mehvid1 It could also be interpreted as “No, I don’t know that they wear out”, but that’s not a statistically invalid assertion in my case; the ones I like take a very long time to wear out.
Hmmm. Maybe that’s why Colgate stopped making them. They worked too well for too long, and people didn’t have to constantly buy replacements…
@werehatrack Yeah… maybe so… this is America, we must have our planned obsolescence items after all, right? Good on you, Colgate!
Cheers! I’m gonna go brush my teeth.
@mehvid1@werehatrack Have to say most of what I learned about Marketing I learned from Mad magazine in the 1970s. It taught me many things about planned obsolescence, F.U.D. (less poisonous than the other leading brand), and even the “shrinkflation” they are talking about again 40 years later (large box with smaller amount of contents but same price). And sizes starting with “Large”. (or maybe Tall/Grande/Venti – but who would do that??)
@robson
I’m guessing this is yet another discontinued design from Colgate. They do that periodically. And the replacements are not always better. But the replacements become “what you can get”.
I’m not sure how these would be considered soft, since if you look closely, what they call “polishing cups” (those sections that look like broken blue circles running through the center of the bristles) are made of plastic or rubber. For anyone with sensitive teeth, or anyone who might be weirded out by anything other than bristles, these might not work out. Personally, I tried a similar style from a different brand once & never used it again. Just looking at these gives me the heebie jeebies.
@ircon96 I had similar misgivings and was pleasantly surprised that I don’t notice them. I completely understand not wanting to take a chance on 20 of these if you haven’t tried them before though and are toothbrush particular.
@ircon96 Yeah, Makes me doubtful too. When I used Oral-B electric, there were some that had those ´rubber petals,´ and I didn’t like them. When I look at the picture of this, the middle part is the same kind of thing.
So I was a ´soft buy’ on this, meaning maybe I’d buy. But now I’m a rubbery-petal ‘no.’
The graphic of the brushes says “BUY 2 GET 2 FREE”
So does that mean people buying this are getting 20 or 40 brushes? I’m guessing 20 because it shows 5 packs of 4.
@nhendley I think these were promo packs to begin with. I recall that the last time i (unsuccessfully) went looking for toothbrushes, these unbrushes were the only thing Colgate had - and none of the packages were just one. That might have been unusual, or it might not. I know that I didn’t buy them then, and was disappointed with what I did buy. But then I found a couple of unopened new-old-stock brushes of my favorite kind in the back of a drawer at home, and stopped looking. I have no idea what they are peddling these days, but I doubt that I’d want it.
I have to wonder which I would find to be less useful; these unbrushes or the soft-bristle sonics that I tried and found desperately wanting? Just for the sake of completeness, i grabbed a pair of bargain-price sonics here a while back, and gave them a try. The soft bristles just utterly failed to clean the tartar at the gum line, and I had to follow up with my manual brush to get my teeth actually clean. The vibrating brush certainly gives the impression of being busily hard at work, but it’s accomplishing very little with its strenuous efforts, no matter how I vary the pressure or positioning.
These? I’ll continue to give them a very hard pass.
Specs
Product: 20-Pack: Colgate 360 Whole Mouth Clean Toothbrushes
Model:
Condition: New
How To Use
What’s Included?
5x 4-Packs of Colgate 360 Whole Mouth Clean toothbrushes for a total of 20
Price Comparison
$50 for 20 on Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Aug 1 - Friday, Aug 5
Brusha! Brusha! Brusha!
/giphy ipana
@yakkoTDI Yeesh. I remember that ad, just barely. And I recall having just learned that a beaver’s teeth are naturally yellow, and never stop growing; that made their choice of mascot/spokescritter a little absurd.
@werehatrack @yakkoTDI And they hardly ever wear three piece suits and a derby!
@macromeh I only remember the ad because of the movie Grease.
@werehatrack Exactly! Everyone knows they prefer fedoras.
I expected a cleverer quip.
@stinks Did you mean “a cleverer Quip” by any chance?
@werehatrack
/giphy you’re seeing what I’m doing there
This is a great deal. Too bad I’m already overstocked.
With all the dental and oral hygiene items you’ve had for sale lately, you would suspect someone there is a dentist…
@mikesmells or liquidated a dentist
/youtube the godfather, make him an offer he couldn’t refuse
@mikesmells Wouldn’t a dentist be secretly selling the opposite of dental and oral hygiene items on the side, to increase the number of people that need dental work?
@brennyn @mikesmells
Gummy bears! Jelly beans! Those corn nut snacks!
@brennyn @Kyeh @mikesmells thanks for not mentioning candy corn… um, anti-jinx…?
@brennyn @Kyeh @mikesmells Dentists don’t need to push tooth-work-generating dietary items, they have McDonalds (et al) doing a very efficient job of it for them.
@brennyn @Kyeh @mikesmells @werehatrack I’ve never understood why nature/evolution/whatever made dental issues so painful. I mean, sure - if Ogg breaks an arm or leg while mammoth hunting, the pain will make him favor the sore limb so it may heal in some fashion. But tooth issues don’t repair themselves, no matter how you baby them.
Just a cruel joke?
@brennyn @Kyeh @macromeh @mikesmells @werehatrack My kid came from Cambodia at nearly 10. I was told she had used a toothbrush on occasion, although on what occasion I don’t know as I had to show her what it was and how to use it. She did not have one cavity. She was the curiosity object at the dental school. They finally concluded that this was because of the diet she ate in Cambodia. Being poor it was rice with bugs for protein, mangos stolen from trees, fish caught without a net or fishing rod, sucked marrow out of bones and ate small bones like fish head bones (so her molars were pretty ground down)… Likely a lot closer to the diet of when our teeth first evolved.
@brennyn @macromeh @mikesmells @werehatrack
I’m guessing it’s because tooth infections can lead to meningitis or brain abcesses, so every part of the head is super-well supplied with nerves? I’ve heard that ear infections are excruciating too.
@Kyeh @macromeh @mikesmells @werehatrack I had an abscess and didn’t know until my dentist went “OOPS” while drilling for something else and a lot of things drained and the assistant puked.
@brennyn @macromeh @mikesmells @werehatrack
I guess it’s lucky they found it!
@brennyn @Kyeh @macromeh @werehatrack I literally just read this while eating dinner but didnt get disgusted. The internet has ruined me…
@brennyn So your dentist does exploratory drilling just like checking for oil wells?
I got excited until I saw soft bristles. That’s like brushing your teeth with cat fur. Yuck!
@rpg714 You are supposed to brush with soft bristles.
@Kidsandliz @rpg714 For some of us, soft bristles just don’t do the job.
@rpg714 haven’t tried the cat fur, but thanks for the anti-recommendation.
@Kidsandliz @rpg714 @werehatrack I’ve got a wire brush I can lend ya
@Kidsandliz @rpg714 @werehatrack Hard bristles are great, if the job you’re trying to do is to strip all the enamel off your teeth. If you brush correctly, soft bristles remove MORE plaque and gunk than hard bristles. Ask your dentist. You do have a dentist, don’t you?
@ellett I have a dentist. He remarks about what good shape my teeth are in, other than the 40(+)-year-old fillings, and how little plaque he has to chip loose. I shall continue to do what I have long done, TYVM, and the rest of you are welcome to do what works for you. The conventional wisdom produced abysmal results for me, so I ignore it immoderately.
@ellett @werehatrack The toothbrushes that my dentist sends home with me after a semiannual checkup/cleaning have fairly stiff bristles. If she’s happy with the results they provide, works for me.
These would make a great family stocking Christmas stocking stuffer for a dentist. For the rest of us, the way to get written out of wills.
@hchavers Dentists get them free.
so are these really the ‘soft’ kind of soft?
i recently switched to a manual soft after using electric for years. even in gentle setting I had some gum irritation and wanted to help it recover, the soft manual really helped and though it was strange to remember how to use it, i felt it helped. i might move back to electric but for a while I think changing to soft manual was good.
not sure I need 20, but these sound pretty OK.
@pmarin These are nicely soft. Not too flimsy, but not stiff at all. I just ran upstairs to check that this is what I’m using before pulling the buy trigger. I thought I would hate the rubber bits in there because if it squeaked or felt weird at all…I hardly notice them. I used to use the Colgate Total model and lament it’s retirement.
@Carebear Thanks, I was going to decide ‘no’ because of the mysterious rubber bits, but Meh-be it’s OK.
Very clever write up with your pun on Georgia Red.
@Kidsandliz sadly, these do come in red in the retail stores. I just tossed my red one. It might have passed for Georgia Red, but it had shimmer in the color so I guess you could call it Fancy Bulldog
How good a job will these do for someone with a Split Tongue or Barbell??
/image split tongue
@IndifferentDude Gag.
@IndifferentDude That is truly disgusting and disturbing!
@robson Thank goodness it’s not animated!!
@IndifferentDude @robson challenge accepted.
@IndifferentDude
EW GROSS!!!
@IndifferentDude @robson @tweezak Eep. I didn’t look at any of the vids, but I was able to quickly determine that there are more than just a couple. [shudder]
I will decline to post links. The curious investigator can doubtless find them in short order.
@IndifferentDude @robson @werehatrack LOL!! Made you look! I just implied that I was gonna go find some and then didn’t. I have learned not to go searching for things I can’t unsee.
I’m still using the toothbrush that I put into service 7 years ago, which I had stashed in a drawer because they had discontinued that design 10 years before that. Somehow, I don’t think I need to buy 20 toothbrushes.
@werehatrack You do know they wear out. Right?
@Kidsandliz @werehatrack after seven years, it must only get used once a month, so I’m guessing it’s good for another year.
@Kidsandliz @mehvid1 Incorrect on all counts. It gets used daily, it’s not worn out, it’s also not soft bristle, and it does the job. Back before I switched to this kind of brush, I had lots of cavities, and was using soft brushes. I abandoned both. Unfortunately, I have no idea where to get one exactly like it at this point. And I’m going to be pissed off as hell if I can’t find something as good when this one finally does wear out. Which, eventually, it will. But not just yet.
@Kidsandliz @mehvid1 @werehatrack
Dare I ask for a picture…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Kidsandliz @werehatrack Just to be pedantic, I’ll point out you’re saying Liz is actually correct in that they DO wear out. As for my comment… a silly joke.
@mehvid1 It could also be interpreted as “No, I don’t know that they wear out”, but that’s not a statistically invalid assertion in my case; the ones I like take a very long time to wear out.
Hmmm. Maybe that’s why Colgate stopped making them. They worked too well for too long, and people didn’t have to constantly buy replacements…
@werehatrack Yeah… maybe so… this is America, we must have our planned obsolescence items after all, right? Good on you, Colgate!
Cheers! I’m gonna go brush my teeth.
@mehvid1 @werehatrack Have to say most of what I learned about Marketing I learned from Mad magazine in the 1970s. It taught me many things about planned obsolescence, F.U.D. (less poisonous than the other leading brand), and even the “shrinkflation” they are talking about again 40 years later (large box with smaller amount of contents but same price). And sizes starting with “Large”. (or maybe Tall/Grande/Venti – but who would do that??)
25 for $20 would be better. Not because I need 5 more, but because I’d prefer to pay $5 less!
@pmarin I just used an Irk coupon.
@pmarin You are right about that…
What, did these “fall off a truck?” Are they expired, refurbished (I know it says “new”), or “open box”?
What’s the catch?
@robson
I’m guessing this is yet another discontinued design from Colgate. They do that periodically. And the replacements are not always better. But the replacements become “what you can get”.
@robson I have used these before. It’s the only toothbrush I threw away before it wore out. Gimmick.
@tweezak
That would explain their being discontinued, if your reaction was typical. And I suspect it was.
Mmm… Mouthbrush.
/giphy homer drool
I’ll be honest. I checked the condition to make sure these were new.
@karlajoy
Yeah, refurb would be kinda ewwwww.
There’s always the electric toothbrush conversion kit.
@cinoclav When your Bob needs a second job to make ends meet.
I’m not sure how these would be considered soft, since if you look closely, what they call “polishing cups” (those sections that look like broken blue circles running through the center of the bristles) are made of plastic or rubber. For anyone with sensitive teeth, or anyone who might be weirded out by anything other than bristles, these might not work out. Personally, I tried a similar style from a different brand once & never used it again. Just looking at these gives me the heebie jeebies.
@ircon96 I agree, my reaction was “that’s not a brush, WTF?”
@ircon96 Thank you for pointing that out. Was tempted, but that detail makes it a ‘nope’ for me.
@ircon96 I had similar misgivings and was pleasantly surprised that I don’t notice them. I completely understand not wanting to take a chance on 20 of these if you haven’t tried them before though and are toothbrush particular.
@ircon96 Yeah, Makes me doubtful too. When I used Oral-B electric, there were some that had those ´rubber petals,´ and I didn’t like them. When I look at the picture of this, the middle part is the same kind of thing.
So I was a ´soft buy’ on this, meaning maybe I’d buy. But now I’m a rubbery-petal ‘no.’
Country of origin?
@ezrich If Meh thought it would help sell them, Meh would include that bit of info. So, I guess those of us who care should assume the worst.
@ezrich @richrauch The worst? Hecho in USA?
@ezrich, I checked out the 1s for $9.98-pk of 4 & they are made in CHINA, so Buyers, or Y’all Be Ware!
These would be great for a donation to a homeless shelter or food pantry.
@Badpookey was thinking exact same
your local food pantry would appreciate these! it’s one of those things you don’t think you need until you don’t have one
/giphy disastrous-abiding-club
The graphic of the brushes says “BUY 2 GET 2 FREE”
So does that mean people buying this are getting 20 or 40 brushes? I’m guessing 20 because it shows 5 packs of 4.
Something seems… off.
@nhendley I think these were promo packs to begin with. I recall that the last time i (unsuccessfully) went looking for toothbrushes, these unbrushes were the only thing Colgate had - and none of the packages were just one. That might have been unusual, or it might not. I know that I didn’t buy them then, and was disappointed with what I did buy. But then I found a couple of unopened new-old-stock brushes of my favorite kind in the back of a drawer at home, and stopped looking. I have no idea what they are peddling these days, but I doubt that I’d want it.
I have to wonder which I would find to be less useful; these unbrushes or the soft-bristle sonics that I tried and found desperately wanting? Just for the sake of completeness, i grabbed a pair of bargain-price sonics here a while back, and gave them a try. The soft bristles just utterly failed to clean the tartar at the gum line, and I had to follow up with my manual brush to get my teeth actually clean. The vibrating brush certainly gives the impression of being busily hard at work, but it’s accomplishing very little with its strenuous efforts, no matter how I vary the pressure or positioning.
These? I’ll continue to give them a very hard pass.
No Teeth, No Problem & No Purchase!!
So,
and by the same company that sells you toothpaste. Hmmm…
@pmarin I thought that was a bunch of unconvincing hooey, too. Their version of snake oil, i guess…or, more accurately, “snake paste”
/giphy vital weedy mint
@somf69 Regardless of toothbrush quality, that is a weird image. The dog paw at the end especially…
Note: “weedy mint” flavor toothpaste not legal in all states. Check with your local authorities…
Uhhh… anyone else get mediums despite the description saying soft?