BABOONS at a British zoo have been observed flossing their teeth with broom bristles and their own hairs.

* Casabella introduced replaceable broom bristles on its Ergo Broom Plus.

A dictionary definition includes: "A collection of fibres or bristles held in a handle or other device." That's a physical description, but it doesn't explain the concept of a brush.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the bacterial contamination of charcoal bristles compared to non-charcoal bristles in used toothbrushes.

The deformation of the elastic bristle was separated into two phases at any interval [DELTA]t [10,12].

The motility of the bristles and bristle groups raises still more questions.

Bristle Ridge is DMCI Homes' second project in the City of Pines.

This is great value, but unlike many budget brushes, they won't let you down by shedding lots of bristles. The synthetic bristles work really well with water-based paints, and the set includes brushes of four different sizes.

Bristle Falls is a small single family community located in the Northwest and will be home to 60 residents.

The head of the toothbrush should be small and the bristles should be short.

A recent systematic review focused on specific variables associated with tooth brushing such as pressure, time spent brushing, bristle type (stiffness and end-shape), filament characteristics, or the use of a dentifrice [13].

The standard terminology (McAlpine 1981) is followed, with older terminology in brackets: frons (postfrons), face (prefrons), parafacial (paraprefrontal area), facial ridge (prefrontal ridge), frontogenal suture (prefrontal-genal suture), postocellar bristles (postvertical bristles), anepisternum (mesopleuron), katepisternum (sternopleuron), postpronotal lobe (humeral callus), posthumeral bristle (presutural bristle), [R.sub.1] (Vein 1), [R.sub.2+3] (Vein 2), [R.sub.4+5] (Vein 3), [M.sub.1+2] (Vein 4), CuA+1A (Vein 6), r-m (anterior crossvein), dm-cu (posterior crossvein).

Laparotomy was performed to remove the foreign body, which appeared to be a wire bristle from a grill-cleaning brush.