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Review quip electric toothbrush11/27/2023 Matthew Messina, spokesperson for the American Dental Association. On the other hand, the cost of the average manual toothbrush should start at just $1 at your local drugstore.ĭental experts are unconvinced that any electric toothbrush-Quip or otherwise-is necessary for good dental health. " What we know works for everybody is that you should brush brush twice a day, floss once a day, eat a healthy diet and see your dentist regularly," says Dr. Your average off-the-shelf electric toothbrush starts at $50 and can cost well over $100 or $200, plus the cost of replacing brush heads over time. At its cheapest, the plastic version of Quip costs $25, though that plan then requires $10 refills for toothpaste and new brush heads ever three months. It's hard not to feel like you're in a special, elite little club when your Quip toothbrush arrives, and it's exactly this desire to feel like a part of the well-designed future that Quip is monetizing.Īpart from the cool factor, Quip also presents savings over other electric toothbrushes (though it doesn't over regular-old manual brushes). You don't have to do anything, because what you need comes right to your mailbox at regular intervals. It's like Dollar Shave Club or StitchFix in that it takes some of the hassle out of planning your purchases. Depending on what you want, you can sign up to get regular shipments of toothpaste and/or brush head replacements every three months. Its brushed metal electric toothbrushes are Apple-esque, and its subscription options provide a pampered feel. After subsisting on angel investing and sales so far, it will also launch a venture funding round in June.Īs a consumer-focused company, Quip operates on a kind of cult of cool. Quip started shipping the first version of its toothbrush in February 2015, and Enever forecasts Quip will top 100,000 in sales in the next several months. In May 2014, they finalized angel funding from Kal Vepuri, also an investor in ClassPass, Harry's and Warby Parker. (Credit: Quip.)Įnever, a professional design consultant, teamed up with with co-founder Bill May and the two spent 2013 working evenings and weekends on the concept for Quip. Quip founders Bill May (left) and Simon Enever (right). And it just seemed obvious this was an area in need of good design." "That people think they need to brush harder, when actually they need to brush longer and with better technique. "At the end of the visit, the dentist went on this big long rant about how people have ideas about brushing that are all wrong," Enever says. But in 2012, he just wasn't able to pull it off, and wound up seeing a dentist in New York City instead. As a UK citizen, he typically had taken care of his dentist visits whenever he happened to be back in his home country. The idea for Quip came about when now-founder Simon Enever went for a simple dentist visit. For bargain-hunters, it comes in less expensive blue or green plastic starting at $25. For the industrial-design obsessed, it comes in four different colors of brushed metal starting at $40. Instead, there's a plain toothbrush head that vibrates in a single pattern, and a two-minute timer that buzzes three different times to get you to switch the area of your mouth you're brushing. There aren't any complicated patterns for the bristles on the brush head, or 12 different options for vibration patterns and timers. The Quip toothbrush has a simple, elegant design with minimal features. It's this need for people to follow basic oral hygiene habits that electric toothbrush-maker Quip says it's trying to tap.
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