Toothbrush

A toothbrush comprising a head and a grip handle, disposed along a longitudinal head-handle direction, and having a widthways direction perpendicular to said longitudinal direction, with a neck longitudinally in between the head and the handle, the head being elongate between a tip end distant from the handle and a base end closest to the handle, and being flattened in a thickness direction generally perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, and having a widthways direction perpendicular to both the longitudinal and thickness directions, the toothbrush head comprising two or more longitudinally sequentially disposed hard plastics material segments flexibly and resiliently linked to each other at a link, and comprising a substantially rigid base segment adjoining the toothbrush neck and extending from the base end of the head to a resilient flexible link situated between the base end and the tip, and a tip segment extending from the tip of the head to the link, wherein the base segment extends for at least 60% of the distance between the tip end and the base end, wherein the base segment of the head is connected by a resiliently flexible link to the handle, and wherein the face of the tip segment forms an angle less than 180° with the face of the base segment, and one or more of the segments having a face on which is mounted one or more elastomeric oral hygiene part, the elastomeric oral hygiene part comprising an adjacent pair of elastomeric strips which each project from the face of the toothbrush head in a strip length direction, each elastomeric strip having a strip width direction generally perpendicular to the strip length direction the strip width dimension being less than the strip length dimension, and a strip thickness direction generally perpendicular to both the strip length and strip width direction, the strip thickness dimension being less than the strip width dimension, wherein two said adjacent strips are linked such that the pair of strips comprise a single elastomeric oral hygiene part with a cross section, cut across the strip length direction, which is chevron shaped, the strips converging in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the head to define an angle of less than 180° between them, and wherein plural said elastomeric oral hygiene parts are arranged on said face sequentially longitudinally and adjacent to said widthways opposite edges with the apex of the chevron shape of the chevron shape pointing inwardly away from said widthways opposite edges of said face.