Nancy, can you explain once and for all why two minutes when you're brushing your teeth with a manual toothbrush is the equivalent of 37 minutes in any other part of your day?

I'm Christine Cyr Clissette. I'm Christine Sear Clissette.

I'm Tyra Blackwell.

I'm Rosie Garan.

And you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

Friends, today's topic is teeth.

You both have really, really nice teeth.

Well, thank you.

So do you.

I also want to address that Kyra, you and I have been trolled by Christine for months now to stop using our manual toothbrushes and use an electric. Yeah, like we're cavemen or something.

I just don't understand why you are still back in, yeah, in the dark ages. What is it? The old in time.

I will always remember the transition from going from manual to electric and it was like my teeth felt so

much cleaner and my dentist, multiple dentists over the years have just reinforced every time I go to visit. Oh, yeah, you're using an electric toothbrush. Good for you. Well, first of all, I'm paranoid that dentists are always trying to sell me stuff. That's a different episode. Different episode. But I don't like going to the dentist and they're like, you should really get an electric toothbrush. because when I switched to manual to electric the first time, I felt like I was like, I had a jackhammer in my mouth.

It sucked. So I'm team manual all the way.

We're going to jump way into this topic today with Nancy Red.

That's right. Nancy is one of our health writers at Wirecutter. She was on the show for an episode we did on sunscreen. She knows a ton about oral health and about toothbrushes. And she spent years testing more like dozens and dozens of toothbrushes. She's been on this beat for six years. So we're going to take a quick break. And then when we're back, Nancy will be on with us to talk about manual versus electric, proper brushing technique, and the toothbrushes that she recommends.

Be right back.

We're going to win.

We're going to win. Welcome back. Welcome back. With us now is Nancy Redd, who's a senior staff writer on the health team, and she covers everything from menstrual products to prescription glasses to toothbrushes. She's also a New York Times best-selling health author,

and her most recent nonfiction book is called The Real Body Manual. She was recently featured on

our podcast covering sunscreen, so if you haven't listened to that yet, you definitely should.

Welcome to the show, Nancy.

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