2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class I

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

reports

What this shows Toothbrush, Powered carries 6,787 MAUDE reports, ranked #272 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Malfunction 6,031 (88.9%)
Injury 617 (9.1%)
Other 103 (1.5%)
36 (0.5%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

6,025 (88.7%)
Other 560 (8.2%)
Required Intervention 77 (1.1%)
Disability 73 (1.1%)
Hospitalization 16 (0.2%)
R 13 (0.2%)
Life Threatening 13 (0.2%)
S 10 (0.1%)
O 5 (0.1%)
H 1 (0.0%)
L 1 (0.0%)

Top Product Problems

Break 2,030
No Apparent Adverse Event 1,186
Detachment of Device or Device Component 879
Detachment Of Device Component 752
Missing Value Reason 719
Insufficient Device Problem Information 401
Loose or Intermittent Connection 384
Patient Device Interaction Problem 143
Overheating of Device 129
Device Slipped 122
Component Falling 121
Material Separation 106
Mechanical Problem 98
Material Fragmentation 97
Fire 89
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 81
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 73
Device Fell 68
Temperature Problem 68
Electrical /Electronic Property Problem 67

Yearly Trend

95
1995: 2
96
1996: 4
97
1997: 4
98
1998: 1
99
1999: 3
00
2000: 2
01
2001: 2
02
2002: 2
03
2003: 2
04
2004: 11
05
2005: 6
06
2006: 8
07
2007: 5
08
2008: 10
09
2009: 12
10
2010: 12
11
2011: 67
12
2012: 219
13
2013: 122
14
2014: 125
15
2015: 505
16
2016: 517
17
2017: 868
18
2018: 743
19
2019: 385
20
2020: 433
21
2021: 548
22
2022: 330
23
2023: 555
24
2024: 578
25
2025: 496
26
2026: 210

Reports in 2025 (496) held close to the prior two-year average of 567.

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Top Manufacturers

Event Locations

I 3,494 (51.5%)
3,172 (46.7%)
NO INFORMATION 87 (1.3%)
HOME 23 (0.3%)
INVALID DATA 6 (0.1%)
UNKNOWN 4 (0.1%)
NOT APPLICABLE 1 (0.0%)

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.

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.