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They are better at tasting minty though! ;)
I feel a significant difference when I use a paste containing triclosan than one just containing the detergent - in particular several hours later when using the triclosan-lacking paste I'll get the "bacteria is building up" feeling/taste/sense. I have not compared this to peroxide use.
Minty is OK, but chalky is kind of icky IMHO (and like I said before, I assign no expected utility to chalky even though I understand that it tends to polish hard surfaces).
Any plans to test that?
In some sort of formal way? Not currently. The VoI seems low. The potential for optimisation that most interests me here is the water pick that Kevin has been mentioned. Do you know anything about those?
No. I'd actually never heard of them before. I looked quickly at Wikipedia and one of the claims struck me as equivocal - it may be better at reducing bleeding than flossing, but it's only as good at the actual anti-plaque cleaning?
I just did a brief look at the easily accessible abstracts that I could find and got the impression:
Oral irrigator + electric brush > Oral irrigator + normal brush > flossing + electric brush > flossing + normal brush > normal brush.
I'm not sure to what degree publication bias applies.