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

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Chronic stress can lead to increased blood pressure and cardiovascular disease, decreased immune function, depression, and ...

Researchers at Tufts University have designed a dental floss pick that measures the stress hormone cortisol in real time.

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 ... they can bind free-floating ...

"We didn't want the measurement to create an additional source of stress, so we asked ourselves: can we create a detection ...

Your daily flossing routine just got a major upgrade. Scientists at Tufts University have created dental floss embedded with ...

Dental floss comes in various thicknesses ... but we appreciated that it was plastic-free. Some users may experience difficulty with the expanding feature, but we found that with a little practice ...