Dentistry Apps Shouldn’t Replace Parents Teaching Children How to Brush

In a Forbes (5/11, Vigo) article on the role of dentistry apps, contributor Julian Vigo discussed Kitten Planet’s Brush Monster, “an app that teaches children how to brush their teeth” via a smart toothbrush and augmented reality,” which allows parents “to monitor how well their children are brushing their teeth. Vigo argued this “particular type of app could be seen as excessive, even attempting to substitute the necessary parental lectures on dental hygiene and time spent together every day at the bathroom sink.”