The Germ Terminator: Keeping It Clean

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Keeping It Clean

As crucial as it is to effectively kill toothbrush germs, it is equally important to provide a sanitary environment in which your toothbrush can be stored in between brushings. What good is it to eliminate all of the germs on your toothbrush only to leave it out in the open air, exposed to loads of disgusting airborne germs from the bathroom and neighboring toothbrushes?

Always remember, your toothbrush is a magnet for germs!

The Germ Terminator is designed with a dry-heat, germ free clean chamber that guards each toothbrush against microbial contamination from any outside source, including the bathroom and germs from other brushes. Call it "the no germ zone". Once a toothbrush has been sanitized in the Germ Terminator, it remains sanitized in the clean chamber until the next toothbrushing.

The specialized clean storage compartment is kept germ free by the dry heat mode, which is effective in killing germs, but more importantly, provides for upward air movement (since hot air rises) so that microorganisms will not settle inside the chamber or on your toothbrush. It also leaves your toothbrush nice and warm until the next time you use it. Independent lab testing proved that upon removing toothbrushes for the Germ Terminators clean chamber 12 hours after they had been sanitized, absolutely no microorganisms were detected on any toothbrush after any test!

It just makes sense!

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The Journal of the American Dental Association:
“Studies have shown that contaminated toothbrushes not only harbor, but also transmit both viruses and bacteria that cause systemic, localized and oral inflammatory diseases.”
(September 2001, Vol. 132, The effects of toothpastes on the residual microbial contamination of toothbrushes)

The Centers for Disease Control:
“Even after being rinsed visibly clean, toothbrushes can remain
contaminated with potentially pathogenic organisms.”
(January 2002,
www.cdc.gov/OralHealth/infection_control/fact_sheet/toothbrushes.htm)

USA Today:
“The sharp tips of toothbrush bristles can cause tiny lacerations in the gums that allow infections to enter the body.”
(27 April 2000, http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:AreMjSo78KgC:
www.usatoday.com/life/health/doctor, Your toothbrush may be a biohazard)

The Journal of the Canadian Dental Association:
“We know that toothbrushes can transmit disease.”
(2000; 66:186-7, Accepting the Need for “Overkill” in Infection Control)

The New Haven Department of Health:
“Laboratory cultures made from used toothbrushes have shown many dangerous pathogenic germs.”
(Vol.LII, No. 10, http://info.med.yale.edu/newhavenhealth/documents/
historical/monthly/toothbrush.html, The Toothbrush)

The Academy of General Dentistry:
“Because most families store toothbrushes in a common storage space, airborne bacteria can move from toothbrush to toothbrush, passing opportunistic infections such as periodontal disease and the common cold from one person to another.”
(http://www.agd.org/consumer/topics/children/toothbrushes/html, Is Your Family Sharing Too Much? Toothbrushes Harbor Hidden Germs During Cold and Flu Season)

The Journal of Dentistry for Children:
“Streptococcus and pathogenic microorganisms can be transferred readily when a toothbrush is used, increasing the risk of dental caries and infectious diseases.”
(May-June 1989; 56(3): 201-4, Residual contamination of toothbrushes by microorganisms)

Professor of Risk Analysis,
Harvard University School of Public Health:
“It may surprise you—or sicken you—to know that if your toothbrush is stored near the toilet, the chances are great that it is covered with E. coli bacteria. Each time you flush the toilet, bacteria disperse in the air in the form of tiny aerosol particles that can land on any surfaces within 6 feet.”
(2002, Rodale Inc., p. 270, Thompson, Kimberly M., Overkill: How our nation’s abuse of antibiotics and other germ killers is hurting your health and what you can do about it)