Waitesmith, a veteran Artíst and former MAC Cosmetics senior executive, spent years searching for an alternative brush design.
Experiment with this alternative: brush with your opposite hand.
As an alternative, brush your cat after its bath - It'll keep the fur controlled.
Research at the UNMC College of Dentistry, Lincoln, NE indicates "that when combined with brushing, oral irrigation is an effective alternative to brushing and flossing for reducing bleeding, gingival inflammation, and plaque removal".[1] There are many types of irrigators.
He is the founder, publisher, editor and irreverent police-blotter reporter of the six-year-old Arcata Eye (circulation: about 3,000), a weekly serving an enclave in the coastal redwoods of Northern California where serious crime is rare, and environmental activism and "alternative" lifestyles brush up against more traditional ways.
Thus, exudate collection with PerioPaper strips may offer an alternative to brush biopsy collection, with the advantage that the processing of the samples via on-strip trypsin digestion being simpler than processing intact cells collected via brush biopsy, which includes additional steps of cell lysis and protein precipitation.
While mouthwashes should not be used as an alternative to brushing and flossing, they have been shown to kill microbes in the mouth and inhibit plaque formation.
Other alternatives to brushing include sprays and gels that you can apply regularly.
So-called water picks are an alternative to interdental brushes.
Our results show strong similarities in the airway microbiota between adult and paediatric asthmatics and controls (Figure 4), despite sampling by two alternative methods (bronchial brushing and BAL).
