I have a toothbrush with a plate of real silver located below the bristles?

Question

what are the benefits or having the silver plate below the bristles? My uncle said something about helping to fight cavities, but can anyone elaborate?

Answer 1

Silver has long been used as a disinfectant. Pioneer folks would drop a silver dollar in a jug of milk to keep it fresh longer. Silver is the active ingredient in the "silver drops" put in babies eyes, and in the burn ointment, "Silver Sulfadiazine". It's used to purify the water on the space station.
Dr. Robert Becker, in his book "The Body Electric", tells how he discovered that there was never any bacterial infection near the silver electrodes he used in his experiments on animals, and he used silver in various forms with great success in treating bone infections, which are very hard to treat due to lack of blood supply.
Sounds like you have a pretty nice toothbrush there...I suspect the silver kills any bacteria on it, and perhaps some silver is released when using it.
The old expression "born with a silver spoon in his mouth" was from the practice of the rich to give a child a silver spoon to suck on, to ward off illness. People who ate off silver plates with silver utensils during the plague did not contract it as offen as others, perhaps due to the anti-microbial effect of the silver.
It is claimed that colloidal silver solutions will kill over 650 different pathogens within 6 minutes.

Answer 2

Silver below the bristles was used to fight off the plague. People who had the plague used these toothbrushes as they though the silver killed the germs that brought the plague. Unfortunately, this was not true. The germs traveled under the silver and remain dormant until activated by movement.

Answer 3

silver is a known bacteria fighter.

it is sold as a dietary supplement and is now being put in the pads of band-aids. sounds like a really good toothbrush, I'd like to know where you got it.