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Smart dental floss with cortisol sensors lets users monitor stress levels, potentially transforming personal health tracking.

Their design of a saliva-sensing dental floss looks just like a common floss pick, with the string stretched across two prongs extending from a flat plastic handle, all about the size of your ...

A new device could soon change how people track their stress—and all it takes is flossing your teeth. Developed by researchers at Tufts University, this innovative dental floss does more than clean ...

Jun 10, 2025 12:00:00 Dental floss that can measure stress while cleaning your teeth is developed Dental floss is a tool that uses thin threads to clean between teeth, and some people use dental ...

Discover how a simple floss sensor tracks stress hormone levels—find out more about this breakthrough technology.

Researchers at Tufts University have designed a dental floss pick that measures the stress hormone cortisol in real time. The Tufts dental floss pick has a sensor that can assess stress levels - Atul ...

Now, engineers at Tufts University have developed an alternative that’s simple, affordable, and seamlessly blends into a daily habit: dental floss. Sameer Sonkusale, a professor of electrical ...

Developed by researchers at Tufts University, this innovative dental floss does more than clean your mouth. It collects your saliva and measures cortisol, a hormone linked to stress, in real time.