But "detailed feedback" isn't "accurate feedback". I mean, it's pretty 'neat' that it can tell you which teeth have been 'correctly' cleaned based on the amount of time you spend in a specific spot, but is that an accurate gauge?

What if you (for whatever reason, doesn't matter) only ate on the left side of your mouth for dinner? You'd spend plenty of time on the left side, but the app might tell you you've done a bad job on the right. Further, depending on what you ate, it might take longer than whatever their predetermined time is to clean the side that had a disproportionate amount of food on it.

What if you have had a tough time with a couple of "problem teeth" that need a bit more love? Is the app capable of tracking where those "problem teeth" are and ensuring that you're spending extra attention there?

I dunno... to me, it seems like it's a no brainer to me when my teeth are clean - I can feel it. Unless a toothbrush has some detailed sensors in the head, I'm gonna seriously doubt its ability to tell me when my teeth are actually clean.

> to me, it seems like it's a no brainer to me when my teeth are clean - I can feel it

Then I envy you, because the only thing I feel that's different before and after brushing is a generalized "my mouth is sticky on the inside" feeling. I definitely lose track of how much time I spent cleaning each side relatively, and I'm sure there are areas I rarely reach because I don't know the brush isn't touching them.

I'd love having a toothbrush that would monitor if I reach every spot as a baseline; I can handle my problem teeth or any eating side imbalance on my own, especially that there is no rule saying you need to brush exactly 2 minutes (or 2.5 or whatever) and not a second more - I could do my baseline and spend extra 30 seconds or so in the problem areas.

I can't even reach all of my teeth with my tongue. The ones I can always seem to feel the same unless I just drank a can of Coke. How do I know if I got them all?

Honestly it doesn’t matter, it’s gamifying the activity that makes the difference for me. At the very least I’ll spend the recommended amount of time cleaning each tooth.

If you don’t mind me asking, how do you keep track of eating healthy?

It’s not one app but a mix of different things. Alarms to take supplements at meal times, Amazon subscriptions set to the right intervals so I always have oatmeal for my breakfast, supplements before they run out etc., alarms that tell me when to stop eating and start eating again after a 14 hour gap for IF, shopping in bulk at Costco and making sure there is nothing in the house that’s “bad” for me.

I’m not tracking my meals. I did use MyFitnessPal for a bit but I didn’t find it useful.

I am really interested, what do you use for waking up early?

I use the wind down reminder on the Apple health app under sleep. This gives you a wind down reminder 45 mins before you need to be in bed. I built a habit to drop whatever I’m doing to start getting ready for bed at that point. I turn on sleep focus on my Apple Watch as I go to sleep and seeing that I’ve slept 7.5-8 hours under the health app (along with the deep/core sleep breakdown) gamifies this for me.

Right before I sleep I also do 4-7-8 interval breathing in bed that slows down my heart rate and gets me calm and sleepy. I use a simple app called iBreathe for that. This breathing session also lets my Apple Watch give me an accurate reading for my heart rate variability (HRV) that gamifies this for me.