#clean toothbrush

Who Cleans the Cleaners?

Watching Out for Your Toothbrush

At the Yuba City Dental Group, we prefer safety and sanitation in our business practices – like social distancing and wearing masks and gloves – for your safety and ours. We regularly address any weak links in the safety and sanitation chain. Interestingly, one of the most vulnerable links in that chain is in your home, likely on your bathroom counter. An…

To UV or Not to UV

One item in the arsenal of oral hygiene products is the ultraviolet light sanitation device, or UV light. The manufacturers of these devices say that cleaning your toothbrushwith a UV light is the best way to keep it, and you, safe from microorganisms, viruses, bacteria, and illness. While it’s true that most illnesses are caused by such microscopic things, are UV lights so revolutionary that…

Our (Blake and Preston) worlds collided halfway across the world from our home country, in 2010.  We were both in Africa serving church missions that would change the way we viewed the world and our lives.  Not a week goes by that we don’t mention something or someone from Africa.  Unfortunately we couldn’t get rid of each other upon returning to the states.  We ended up studying at the same university, in the same major, in the same emphasis...

When we were trying to decide on a name for our techie toothbrush sanitizer (it took weeks), we wanted a clean, simple name that meant something to us.  Africa meant something to both of us and our friendship.  We needed to connect the name to Africa.

In addition to our African connection, we kept coming back to clean.  Clean is always good.  We like clean houses, clean offices, clean cars, clean design, clean lives.  After all, we are clean freaks!  Our product is even about clean toothbrushes and clean teeth.    

So, we looked up clean In Afrikaans.  The translation - “skoon”.  BOOM.  Skoon was a combo of clean and Africa...we had our name.  We loved it.  And still do.

And so we call ourselves the Skooners.  But we want more Skooners than just us.  To be a Skooner, keep following our story and tell your friends about our story.  By the time we launch and you have a Skoon product in your home, you’ll actually be skooning with our skoon, which will make you an official skooner!

How to Choose the Right Toothbrush?

Your toothbrush is one of your most personal items. It’s the only thing you actually stick inside your body at least twice per day. So why are most people so cavalier when it comes to selecting a toothbrush? Many people will simply pick up the least expensive option or wait for their dentist to give them a toothbrush for free before changing out their toothbrush.

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How To Have A Clean Toothbrush

Your Oral Hygeine

Even toothbrushes that haven’t been stored in bathrooms have still been found to contain enteric bacteria—the same type that in habits fecal matter. Our mouth is home to over 500 types of bacteria so it’s virtually impossible to keep your toothbrush clean without taking these steps.

  Never Underestimate A Good Rinsing: Every time you brush your teeth, you should thoroughly…