A cleaning section for an electric oral hygiene device is proposed that has at least a first carrier mounted for driven rotation or oscillating rotation around a rotation axis, at least a plurality of first cleaning elements mounted on the first carrier with their bases arranged on the vertices of a first star-shaped polygon around the rotation axis, wherein the bases lie on a mounting surface and the whole interior of the first star-shaped polygon is visible from the point where the rotation axis crosses the mounting surface, wherein all of the first cleaning elements are circumferentially inclined with respect to the rotation axis such that the free end of each of the first cleaning elements is farther away in the circumferential direction than the base of the respective first cleaning element and wherein the circumferential inclination direction of all first cleaning elements is the same, and wherein at least one cleaning element property of adjacent first cleaning elements or adjacent clusters of first cleaning elements discretely alternates between a first configuration and a second configuration.