Willo is a new product that completely innovates how you approach and clean your teeth. It discards the toothbrush handle design and implements a mold that fits your mouth and cleans your teeth for you, hands-free! It specializes by making your teeth cleaning more consistent and effective without involving human error.
You may have developed routines, and once you have established that routine, you lose focus on the details and take your behavior for granted. Twice a day you brush your teeth, but have you ever considered that we have been using the same method for a hundred years without a revolutionary innovation?
In fact, dentists still identify flaws in the current teeth brushing options available. Traditional toothbrushes are a point of concern for many healthcare professionals. are liable to under brush or over brush with traditional toothbrushes. Even battery-operated toothbrushes are dependent on you evenly distributing your cleanliness and will not clean up all the plaque.
“For my entire career, I’ve been looking in patient’s mouths, adults [and] children, and seeing that for most people, they just can’t get that clean mouth that we like to see when they come in for their check-ups. We need something that’s better, that’s different, that gives them the ability to get their teeth clean every single day.”
Willo’s mouth mold technology locates the bristles based on your shape, preferences, and user history. It pulsates the bristles to brush your teeth, and while doing so, learns the shape of your mouth to increase effectiveness and consistency. All you need to do is keep the mouthpiece in your mouth for the duration of the session, press a button, and the entire brushing is taken care of by Willo.
With Willow, it does not just come with a brushing mouth piece; it also comes with a water tank and rinse pod so when the session is over, you can go on your way. Willo also features Bluetooth capabilities to choose what session you want to do that day. Sessions include basic brush, sensitive gum mode and other options. You can also track your brushing data with the Willo app to get a deeper understanding about your habits!
The technology is very family friendly, too. The mouth pieces can identify unique mouths, will configure to your dentistry needs, and every 3 months Willo will ship you a new mouthpiece to ensure consistency long-term. Before Willo, you were stuck with an electric or regular toothbrush and both required you to be consistent with the timing, placement, and even pressure of your strokes to ensure you were properly clean and did not damage your enamels or gums. Teeth brushing has not had an industry disruptor in decades until today. Now you can begin your journey towards cleaner teeth.
Leo Hererra is a graduate student of EMDD. He currently works as a graduate assistant for the program.
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