An electric toothbrush is provided. The electric toothbrush has an elongatedbodyhaving a handle, a head and a neck extending between the handle and the head,the head havinga front face and a rear face, the toothbrush comprising a massaging elementdisposed on the rearface of the head a plurality of bristles extending from the front face and adrive mechanism forimparting movement to the massaging element along the longitudinal axis of thetoothbrushwherein at least a portion of the massaging element is coplanar with the rearface and whereinthe head height is greater than the massaging element height.
