TODAY’S PATENT – INTERSTITIAL FLOSSING TOOTHBRUSH

The Interstitial Flossing Toothbrush was invented by Jerome Bauer (Bayside, NY) on the 24^th of October, 1994, bearing patent number US5459899A.

The present invention teaches a toothbrush that is provided with a specific arrangement of tooth cleaning means that includes both surface brushing means and flossing means that enter and penetrate into spaces and interstices in and between teeth and gums to clean the same and to eject foreign matter from between the teeth and gums in the manner of dental floss and toothpicks. Such “brushing” and “flossing” cleaning means are working parts of the same toothpick to provide a combined toothbrush specifically intended to simultaneously brush the tooth surfaces and to pick into spaces and interstices in and between the adjacent teeth and gums to eject foreign matter therefrom and to pick and floss them clean during selective movements of the toothbrush handle.