Toothbrush, Powered
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 §872.6865 (Dental panel).
FDA MAUDE casebook
openFDA event book Toothbrush, Powered LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE
#272 of 1000 · 6,787 reports · 1995–2026
- BOOK 6,787 reports
- RANK #272 of 1000
- DEATH 0 death-typed
- INJ 617 injury-typed
- MALF 6,031 malfunction
- SPAN 1995–2026
- PEAK 2017: 868
- PHOTO Prosthesis
Nearest event-volume peer: Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Acetabular, Cemented, Metal (7 report gap)
Toothbrush, Powered sits #272 of 1000 among tracked device types with 6,787 MAUDE reports spanning 1995–2026. 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 → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →
Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm
Toothbrush, Powered carries 88.9% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 24.0pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.
- DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
- INJ 9.1% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-21.2 pp)
- MALF 88.9% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+24.0 pp)
Lead product-problem code Break is 27% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer BRAUN GMBH WERK MARKTHEIDENFELD accounts for 100% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location I is 51% of location-tagged rows .
Toothbrush, Powered in the event-volume neighbourhood
FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers
- Pad
Pad, Heating, Powered
6,878 reports
- Device
Device, Monitoring, Intracranial Pressure
6,841 reports
- Toothbrush (this)
Toothbrush, Powered
6,787 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Hip, Hemi-, Acetabular, Cemented, Metal
6,780 reports
- Container
Container, I.V.
6,755 reports
- Prosthesis
Prosthesis, Hip, Femoral Component, Cemented, Metal
6,699 reports
What this shows Toothbrush, Powered carries 6,787 MAUDE reports, ranked #272 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 (496) held close to the prior two-year average of 567.
Related Entities for Toothbrush, Powered
Top Manufacturers
Event Locations
Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint
Toothbrush, Powered carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.
Similar report volume
Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (6,787 here).
Similar death-typed counts
Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Toothbrush, Powered 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, Powered; 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.