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Before electric and sonic toothbrushes, most orthodontists would give the patient a toothbrush which had a continuous V-shaped groove down the middle of the brush on the day that braces were placed. The limitations of the V-shaped grooved brush are that the groove is triangular and continuous but braces are rectangular and protrude at average intervals, so a V-grooved brush is not a good fit. The protrusion of the braces causes bristles to "float" on top of the braces, which fails to make cleaning easy. The protruding nature of braces also applies to the electric and sonic brushes.