Tomorrow, November 11th (Saturday), I have some urgent business to attend to, so I'll be taking the day off.
I apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your understanding.
As a corporate member of the Osaka Symphony Orchestra, I receive complimentary tickets for what they call the "Regular Concert Series,"
but there's also a separate series called the "Classic Concert Series"
which I rarely attend unless there's something I really want to hear.
Also, the Regular Concert Series never takes place on Saturdays.
This time I'm going to the Classic Concert Series,
and the main piece on the program is
Mozart's K. 626, the Requiem.
You know, the part "Dies Irae (Day of Wrath)" from the Requiem
is the stage BGM when you fight Krauser in the final stage of
Fatal Fury 2 and Fatal Fury Special.
That one.
Bonus
The other day, a customer who had me build an Iron Cross rim gave me
a variety of oral care products.
My profession is exposed, but she's a dentist.
What follows is basically product promotion
This is Systema 44M.
Systema is the brand that started as "Denter Systema," a sub-brand of Lion's "Denter" brand,
and later had its name changed to just "Systema."
The current toothbrush lineup has 4 types,
with regular head size being 42 and compact being 44,
and after that comes letters M and H,
which probably stand for Medium and Hard, but
the difference isn't actually in bristle hardness—it's in bristle density per unit area,
with H being 1.4 times the density of M.
With these two elements combined,
you get 4 models: 42M, 42H, 44M, and 44H.
I experience something similar with bike parts, but
when I hear people say things like "toothbrushes are all basically the same anyway,"
I imagine professionals in that field must get pretty irritated.
The Taft 24 model from オーラルケア (Oral Care Company)
in ESS hardness bristles.
It says it's for dental professional use,
but from what I found, the bristle hardness levels go, from softest to hardest:
ESS, SS, S, MS, M, MH,
with ESS being for people with severe dentin hypersensitivity,
SS for those undergoing tooth treatment or with exposed root surfaces,
S for those with healthy gums who brush with strong pressure,
MS for those with healthy gums who prefer harder toothbrushes,
M for those with healthy gums who have plaque buildup,
and MH for those with healthy gums who have stubborn plaque.
The two hardest levels, M and MH, require professional instruction on brushing pressure from a dentist.
This is truly a professional model where the dentist (the seller, not the user) judges what's right for each individual patient.
I'd probably need something like S or MS (amateur assessment),
but if you're giving it without checking their actual condition,
ESS is the safe choice—that's professional judgment for you.
The ci Assist model from ci Medical.
Compared to Systema and most general toothbrushes,
the head is quite compact.
This one also says it's for dental office use only.
I found out that there's a separate model called ci Assist mini
with an even more compact head,
and in its description it says "10 tuft model."
Tuft is a term meaning a clump or cluster, but
in toothbrushes it refers to bundles of bristles planted in the brush,
and in ci Assist mini they're arranged in a formation of
2, 3, 3, 2 from handle to tip,
which adds up to 10 tufts total.
The regular (non-mini) ci Assist has
a 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2 arrangement,
totaling 16 tufts.
And when I took the Taft 24 out of its package,
sure enough, it was 3×8 for exactly 24 tufts.
I learned something new, but when a dentist recommends
a toothbrush to me, if I ask "How many tufts does this one have?"
I might come across as a know-it-all,
so whenever tuft information comes up in conversation,
I'll just act like I'm hearing about it for the first time.
Speaking of Taft 24, I'm kind of surprised they're allowed
to trademark a word that's basically a grammatical counter,
even if it's a minor one.
These are interdental brushes from Lion's Dent EX brand.
The handle colors being different isn't just for style—
it's to distinguish between different specifications.
The brush type corresponds to:
4S - Red
SSS - Pink
SS - White
S - Yellow
M - Blue
L - Green
LL - Gray
and as the size designation gets larger,
the length of the brush extending from the wire shaft that goes into the interdental space increases.
The pink, white, and yellow ones I have here
are consecutive sizes, but
when you line them up and zoom in, it looks like this.
I actually tried them out, and in my case
the pink one fits in several of my interdental spaces,
but the yellow one doesn't fit anywhere at all.
On a separate note, this is a sample of
Concool F mouthwash that I got from my regular dentist.
It comes in a container like an eye dropper
where you dilute it by putting a few drops in a cup of water,
and when I asked a dentist friend to bring me the full-size product
she brought it while showing off the Mercedes-Benz G-Class she'd recently bought.
I didn't buy it—she gave it to me.
I apologize for any inconvenience, and thank you for your understanding.
As a corporate member of the Osaka Symphony Orchestra, I receive complimentary tickets for what they call the "Regular Concert Series,"
but there's also a separate series called the "Classic Concert Series"
which I rarely attend unless there's something I really want to hear.
Also, the Regular Concert Series never takes place on Saturdays.
This time I'm going to the Classic Concert Series,
and the main piece on the program is
Mozart's K. 626, the Requiem.
You know, the part "Dies Irae (Day of Wrath)" from the Requiem
is the stage BGM when you fight Krauser in the final stage of
Fatal Fury 2 and Fatal Fury Special.
That one.
Bonus
The other day, a customer who had me build an Iron Cross rim gave me
a variety of oral care products.
My profession is exposed, but she's a dentist.
What follows is basically product promotion
This is Systema 44M.
Systema is the brand that started as "Denter Systema," a sub-brand of Lion's "Denter" brand,
and later had its name changed to just "Systema."
The current toothbrush lineup has 4 types,
with regular head size being 42 and compact being 44,
and after that comes letters M and H,
which probably stand for Medium and Hard, but
the difference isn't actually in bristle hardness—it's in bristle density per unit area,
with H being 1.4 times the density of M.
With these two elements combined,
you get 4 models: 42M, 42H, 44M, and 44H.
I experience something similar with bike parts, but
when I hear people say things like "toothbrushes are all basically the same anyway,"
I imagine professionals in that field must get pretty irritated.
The Taft 24 model from オーラルケア (Oral Care Company)
in ESS hardness bristles.
It says it's for dental professional use,
but from what I found, the bristle hardness levels go, from softest to hardest:
ESS, SS, S, MS, M, MH,
with ESS being for people with severe dentin hypersensitivity,
SS for those undergoing tooth treatment or with exposed root surfaces,
S for those with healthy gums who brush with strong pressure,
MS for those with healthy gums who prefer harder toothbrushes,
M for those with healthy gums who have plaque buildup,
and MH for those with healthy gums who have stubborn plaque.
The two hardest levels, M and MH, require professional instruction on brushing pressure from a dentist.
This is truly a professional model where the dentist (the seller, not the user) judges what's right for each individual patient.
I'd probably need something like S or MS (amateur assessment),
but if you're giving it without checking their actual condition,
ESS is the safe choice—that's professional judgment for you.
The ci Assist model from ci Medical.
Compared to Systema and most general toothbrushes,
the head is quite compact.
This one also says it's for dental office use only.
I found out that there's a separate model called ci Assist mini
with an even more compact head,
and in its description it says "10 tuft model."
Tuft is a term meaning a clump or cluster, but
in toothbrushes it refers to bundles of bristles planted in the brush,
and in ci Assist mini they're arranged in a formation of
2, 3, 3, 2 from handle to tip,
which adds up to 10 tufts total.
The regular (non-mini) ci Assist has
a 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2 arrangement,
totaling 16 tufts.
And when I took the Taft 24 out of its package,
sure enough, it was 3×8 for exactly 24 tufts.
I learned something new, but when a dentist recommends
a toothbrush to me, if I ask "How many tufts does this one have?"
I might come across as a know-it-all,
so whenever tuft information comes up in conversation,
I'll just act like I'm hearing about it for the first time.
Speaking of Taft 24, I'm kind of surprised they're allowed
to trademark a word that's basically a grammatical counter,
even if it's a minor one.
These are interdental brushes from Lion's Dent EX brand.
The handle colors being different isn't just for style—
it's to distinguish between different specifications.
The brush type corresponds to:
4S - Red
SSS - Pink
SS - White
S - Yellow
M - Blue
L - Green
LL - Gray
and as the size designation gets larger,
the length of the brush extending from the wire shaft that goes into the interdental space increases.
The pink, white, and yellow ones I have here
are consecutive sizes, but
when you line them up and zoom in, it looks like this.
I actually tried them out, and in my case
the pink one fits in several of my interdental spaces,
but the yellow one doesn't fit anywhere at all.
On a separate note, this is a sample of
Concool F mouthwash that I got from my regular dentist.
It comes in a container like an eye dropper
where you dilute it by putting a few drops in a cup of water,
and when I asked a dentist friend to bring me the full-size product
she brought it while showing off the Mercedes-Benz G-Class she'd recently bought.
I didn't buy it—she gave it to me.