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Abstract

An orthodontic toothbrush cleans braces and teeth effectively, including braces which have brackets protruding from tooth surfaces, wherein the brackets are connected by a spanning archwire. The orthodontic toothbrush has a longitudinally extending handle attached to a teeth cleaning head with bristles extending upward therefrom. The bristle head includes rows of bristles, which contact and clean both the orthodontic appliances attached to the surfaces of the teeth and underlying teeth at the same time because of the several different bristle heights. The shortest group of bristles is in the middle of all the bristle rows. The height of these shortest bristles represent an average protrusive depth of the thickness of a typical bracket or band protruding from a tooth's surface. Adjacent to the shortest heightened bristles is an intermediate row, bilaterally, used to assist in removing and cleaning food debris and bacteria harboring on the incisal/occlusal (top) and gingival (bottom) portions of a tooth's crown and orthodontic bracket or band. Adjacent to the intermediate heighted bristles are rows of tuft of pairs of taller bristles that split apart, bilaterally to reach between surfaces. The tallest bristles are located at the distal end of the toothbrush head.

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