Possibly another solution looking for a problem? Or money looking for a distraction? Or simply a newspaper looking to fill column inches?
About these solutions: A plug or battery needed for all. They’ll set you back $40 to $180. Attributes touted- “Fashion-forward, compact for on-the-go, multimodal, all-in-one for brushing and flossing simultaneously (doable but awkward- sort of like patting one’s head while rubbing one’s belly)”
Damning with faint praise? The chair of clinical general dentistry at UCSF thinks so. “Nothing is as good as original, real-deal dental floss when it comes to cleaning in between the teeth.” And the Greek stoic, Epicurus would agree. “A man is wealthy in proportion to the things he can do without.”
Contrary to the headline, it seems these new fangled flossers come with lots of strings attached.