Toothbrush, Manual
Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.
OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.
FDA Class I (lowest regulatory risk tier, general controls), regulated under 21 CFR §872.6855 (Dental panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Toothbrush, Manual LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#562 of 1000 · 1,544 reports · 1994–2026
- BOOK 1,544 reports
- RANK #562 of 1000
- DEATH 1 death-typed
- INJ 250 injury-typed
- MALF 1,218 malfunction
- SPAN 1994–2026
- PEAK 2022: 327
- PHOTO Catheter
Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter, Umbilical Artery (1 report gap)
Toothbrush, Manual sits #562 of 1000 among tracked device types with 1,544 MAUDE reports spanning 1994–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Similar-volume device →
Injury-coded reports sit below the device-type norm
Toothbrush, Manual carries 16.2% INJURY-coded reports, 14.1pp below the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.1% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.4 pp)
- INJ 16.2% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-14.1 pp)
- MALF 78.9% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+14.1 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 35% of coded problems · Top event location is 51% of location-tagged rows .
Toothbrush, Manual in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Barrier
Barrier, Absorbable, Adhesion
1,558 reports
- Modular Elect…
Modular Electromechanical Surgical System
1,552 reports
- Reagent
Reagent, Coronavirus Serological
1,550 reports
- Catheter
Catheter, Umbilical Artery
1,545 reports
- Toothbrush (this)
Toothbrush, Manual
1,544 reports
- Equipment
Equipment, Laboratory, General Purpose, Labeled Or Promoted For A Specific Medical Use
1,540 reports
What this shows Toothbrush, Manual carries 1,544 MAUDE reports, ranked #562 of 1000.
Event Types
Patient Outcomes
FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.
Top Product Problems
Yearly Trend
Reports in 2025 (71) held close to the prior two-year average of 93.
Related Entities for Toothbrush, Manual
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint
Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Toothbrush, Manual: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (1,544 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (1 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Toothbrush, Manual are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.
Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Toothbrush, Manual; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.