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1. A handle of a dental hygiene item, the handle including:
a longitudinal axis, and opposite first and second longitudinal end portions; the second end portion including an engagement portion to releaseably engage a head that is to be fixed to the second end portion so that via manipulation of the handle the head can be manipulated by a user to engage the user's teeth, internal mouth surfaces or tongue; and wherein the second end portion includes a first longitudinal length and a second longitudinal length, the second longitudinal length tapering towards an end extremity, with the first length having a longitudinally extending external surface and the second length have a longitudinally extending external surface, with the surfaces being joined by a transition surface, the transition surface being tangential to the first surface and tangential to the second surface, with the second surface spaced outwardly from the first surface by no more than 3 mm relative to said axis at the transition surface. |