Make your toothbrush real!

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In the health care industry, there is a consumer good that everybody uses multiple times a day in the everyday life. The product is a common toothbrush for oral care. For hygiene reasons, the toothbrush is a very personal good and there is quite a wide choice and variety of toothbrushes in the market. For customer attractiveness, toothbrushes come with different designs, very smooth shapes, different materials and vivid colours.One first limitation is that the consumer cannot know their feeling and satisfaction about the product at the time of the toothbrush purchase. Real product performance requires user experience because it can only be evaluated through the toothbrush use, after product unpacking. So the product choice at the moment of the purchase is mainly based and driven by product design, attractiveness and expected product performance. User just imagines that he will be more satisfied with one toothbrush than another if he has not tried the same toothbrush before. So the user feedback and satisfaction is just as personal as the product itself.For this reason, the possibility to get a 3D printed test prototype in advance will help both designers and also users to try and choose the toothbrush that better meets their sensations and request through real performance. Designer can decide to administrate the test to a sample of users to define the best design among several proposed. Moreover mass customisation through 3D printing can allow the user to highly customize this very personal product.Soft materials can be combined with rigid ones in different colours to provide the best correspondence with the final real product performance. Stratasys J750 would make your toothbrush real, meaning designers or users will be able to test in advance what their real feeling about the use of a certain toothbrush will be. Hence your purchase and choice will be with no risk to be unsatisfied and reinforced by the opportunity to customize your toothbrush.Further details are provided in the enclosed PDF file.Print time on the Stratasys J750 with 5 colours from 5 to 10 hours depending on settings and part orientation.3D models created by VISI 2017 software (screenshot enclosed).Part printability demonstrated on a MakerBot Replicator with True Black PLA filament and 0.25 mm layer thickness (pictures enclosed).