Where did the missing material go? Was I swallowing it? As someone with a stainless steel and glass kitchen, this freaked me out.
My orthodontist, Dr. Weeman, and I looked for a retainer that wouldn’t leave plastic in my body. There wasn’t one. So I started working with Andrea, our lead scientist, on developing an alternative. We also set out to measure exactly how many microplastics I was eating.
Toothbrushes. Water bottles. Pacifiers. They all pass a standard. The standard is just too low. So we test them ourselves for contaminants, leachables, and microplastics, and we publish what we find. If it’s bad enough, we start working on an alternative.
Sometimes that means a new material, sometimes a new design. Sometimes it means telling you what you have is fine.
Toxins get in at every step of the supply chain. We test everything and trust nothing until we verify it.
We only use materials that break down harmlessly and cannot accumulate.
Nobody switches to something worse. Better for you has to also be better to use.
