Method for the manufacture of a toothbrush

In a method of manufacturing a tooth brush having a bristle area formed of several folded bristle bundles of plastic bristles, said method including separating, with an anchor, the bristle bundles from a bristle package with a predetermined bristle length, folding the bristle bundles and pressing same into dead end holes, which are formed in the bristle area of the toothbrush, with the anchor, and rounding off of ends of bristles of the bristle bundles, an improvement comprising rounding the bristle ends at both ends of the bristle bundles prior to the bristle bundles being folded and anchored in the dead end holes of the toothbrush bristle area.