If you use a dental retainer or sleep with a nightguard, you know they can get funky pretty quickly. If you don’t properly clean it, you can do more than give yourself bad breath: James, the founder of a company called Zima Dental, actually gave himself strep throat from wearing an inadequately-cleaned retainer.
James subsequently founded the company to create this Dental Pod, which cleans oral devices ultrasonically, using just water:
“The Dental Pod uses high-frequency 42,000 Hz ultrasonic waves to vibrate the solution and produce millions of nano-scale bubbles. These bubbles rapidly collapse, releasing a large amount of energy, breaking down bacteria and plaque while being non abrasive to your dental appliance. Ultrasonic cleaning technology is safe and reliable and has been widely used in laboratory, commercial, industrial and other fields for decades.”
You can also drop in a cleaning tablet, if you want it extra fresh.
They run $100.