Review & Hack: DPL Oral Gum Care Light Therapy Led System Kit

This fairly amazing device (on Amazon, elsewhere) appears to be the first mass market gadget that uses light frequency as a daily oral health aid. To reverse gum disease, among other uses.

There will be other devices like this coming along.

(The use of light as a delivery mechanism for frequency, quantified as color, is beyond the scope of this short essay. Do you own research. NASA originally developed the tech. A century from now, sooner if we are lucky, light, sound and frequency could displace drugs.)

This device consists of two parts which snap together before use.

The portion that fits in your mouth is the heart and soul. It is well designed, durable, and has an impressive light array which contacts the gum tissue. Clever.

The other portion is a rechargeable gel pack which needs to be charged before each use (or clusters of uses) and once charged in theory gives you a series of precisely timed 10 minute uses.

Note the use of the words “in theory.” Gel pack rechargeable tech is buggy at the best of times and this design in particular seems to be especially unreliable according to net chatter. Even in peak working condition, the company now admits that the pack provides “only a couple” of uses per charge. And the battery is certain to degrade over time. This part of the design seems poor compared to the mouthpiece portion.

Nor is it clear that 10 minutes is the “right” dosage for everyone, merely a “convenient” dosage.

NOTE: the following hack is theoretical only, has never been tried, is not recommended, will unquestionably void your warranty and potentially create other problems as well. It is presented for discussion purposes only.

Until a better version comes along, it is hardly rocket science to find an adapter cable that takes power directly from the AC to DC converter (that comes with the unit) and feeds it into the mouthpiece via the correct female micro-USB connection. This would solve the issue with the unreliability of the charger module and also allow the user to determine his or her best interval for treatment by trial and error. Creating treatments over 10 minutes in duration will almost certainly burn out the head unit.