Modular Toothbrush Design

An environment friendly modular design for a toothbrush

We realised that most of the toothbrushes go to waste because of the requirement of replacing them every 2-3 months. In this process the whole brush is discarded which decreases the life span of a toothbrush to a great extent. Moreover with the use of non-biodegradable materials it becomes extremely difficult to manage the waste. Hence we thought of designing a new toothbrush keeping the following points in mind.

  1. How to enhance the life span of a normal toothbrush?
  2. What materials to select to manage the waste effectively?
Taking inspiration from the existing modular designs we came up with the idea of toothbrush which is modular in nature containing space for up to four bristle tops, which can be replaced one by one to the custom designed bristle top holder cleverly built into the body, making it last 4 times longer with the same amount of material.