Chomper Chums® vs Truthbrush

United Concordia Dental is proud to present Chomper Chums®, a dental hygiene focused mobile app. The app is designed to enable parents to help their child to learn proper brushing techniques and to establish long lasting and healthy oral wellness habits. The target audience includes children between the ages of 4 and 11 years of age. The purpose of the app is to help children to develop good oral wellness habits at an early age that will last a lifetime. These include brushing for the recommended time period of two minutes, twice per day, as well as flossing and rinsing. To engage children while they brush and learn, the app introduces three fun, friendly and lovable animal characters that are named by the child, and with whom they interact each time they brush. Characters include a lion, horse and alligator – all of whom help the child to learn how to brush properly. Using colorful animation, the app also helps children to make sure that they reach all quadrants of their mouths when brushing by showing the inside of their animal character’s mouth while they brush. The child can chase “sugar bugs” around each quadrant, for 30 seconds per quadrant. When the child brushes correctly twice per day and for the recommended 2 minute time period, they earn coins that are used to purchase food items to help to care for their animal. In caring for their animal, the child is encouraged to select healthy food items, but can also select less healthy choices to feed their animal, such as snacks rather than vegetables. However, the health of their animal character is influenced by their choices, teaching them about the importance of making their own healthy eating choices. Also, children who continue to brush regularly for extended days can earn the “Super Smile Award” which allows them to send their animal character on a new adventure!

The Truthbrush is a small, decorative device that fits easily on any manual or electric toothbrush. It allows you to track all toothbrush events and monitor the duration and coverage. We all know that brushing twice a day for two minutes is essential to your health. Children often brush for a short duration, miss coverage areas, or simply forget to brush at all. You can't be with your kids for every brushing, Truthbrush can. With Truthbrush you can collect all brush event data seamlessly in the background. There is no start or stop button, it passively collects data so that you can view the trends over time. Truthbrush ends the "did you brush" argument and allows you to coach and reward your family for better oral health. According to the World Health Organization, dental care is the most unmet healthcare need in children and adolescents. Poor brushing leads to increased dental visits, cavities, periodontal disease, discolored teeth, and the loss of confidence that you get with a great smile. Studies have shown that bacteria in the mouth is related to heart disease, diabetes, pneumonia, and other serious health issues. Your family's health is the most important thing in your life. Truthbrush makes it possible to keep track of your family's toothbrush behavior and build great healthy habits. The Truthbrush app shows daily toothbrush events and charts them over time. Understanding behavior and trends are critical to building great habits. The app displays the time of brushing, duration, and coverage. Truthbrush knows the difference between brushing teeth, applying toothpaste, and cleaning the brush. The app makes it easy to set goals and rewards, configure alerts and even share the brush event data with your dentist. Your dentist is a key partner in the health of your family. Truthbrush allows your dentist to check-in and helps without waiting for a six-month visit. The app allows you to set the beeping timer on the Truthbrush tracker for two minutes or any duration that you set. Key Features: Track and monitor all brush behavior Configurable beep timer Weekly goals and rewards Coverage analysis Tips to guide better brushing Alerts and notifications Performance report Share data with your dentist