An electric toothbrush having a handpiece, a bristle holder which is arranged on a head portion of the handpiece and is rotatable about an axis of rotation of the bristle holder, and a drive mechanism for the bristle holder. The drive mechanism includes a motor which is arranged on the handpiece, and a transmission member which transfers a driving motion from the motor to the bristle holder. The transmission member is arranged to rock in multiple axes and is arranged to be driven by the motor such that is approximately traverses a double conical path.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/771,529, filed Feb. 4, 2004, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,162,764, which is a continuation of PCT Application No. PCT/EP02/09417, filed Aug. 23, 2002, claiming priority from German application number 101 45 320.5, filed Sep. 14, 2001 and German application number 102 06 493.8, filed Feb. 16, 2002. The entire contents of the above-referenced U.S. and PCT applications are incorporated by reference.
