This AI toothbrush wants to find trouble before your dentist does

If you’ve ever wanted more information about what’s going on inside your mouth between dental visits, you’re in luck. Now, there’s an at-home oral-care system designed to give you exactly that. The oral-care technology company usmile just introduced an at-home AI-assisted toothbrush that lets you learn all the (dirty?) details about your mouth, teeth, and gums. The newly released D Series oral-care system includes the D50 OralCam Toothbrush and the companion D-lite OralCam, which works with a user’s smartphone camera “to support a fuller visual review” of the mouth. The inside of your own mouth can feel like a bit of a mystery. For starters, it’s wet, dark, and pretty tough to see what’s going on. Unless you’re experiencing discomfort, or dentistry happens to be a hobby, you likely don’t have much information about your dental health until you’re actually sitting in the dentist’s chair. But the D Series offers more than the kind of visualization you can’t get from opening wide and looking in the mirror. It also provides feedback, tracks hygiene, and alerts users to potential problem areas. Smart toothbrushes aren’t entirely new. They first appeared on the market in the early 2010s…