PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To store a care region of an oral cavity and a plaque amount detected correspondingly to the care region.SOLUTION: This oral cavity care device includes: a care member for caring the oral cavity an attitude detection part 510 for detecting the attitude of the care member a region estimation part 520 for estimating the care region of the oral cavity based on the detected attitude a light source emitting light of a prescribed wavelength on which plaque reacts a photoelectric conversion part receiving light and converting it into an electric signal an imaging part 530 making the light source emit the light to the care region, and acquiring image data based on the electric signal obtained by converting reflected light from the care region by the photoelectric conversion part a plaque detection part 540 for detecting the plaque amount of the care region based on the image data acquired by the imaging part and a storage part 55 for associating the care region estimated by the region estimation part and the plaque amount detected by the plaque detection part about the care region, and storing them in a memory.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】口腔のケア部位と、当該ケア部位に対応して検出された歯垢量とを記憶する。【解決手段】口腔ケア装置は、口腔をケアするためのケア部材と、ケア部材の姿勢を検出するための姿勢検出部510と、検出された姿勢に基づいて口腔のケア部位を推定するための部位推定部520と、歯垢が反応する所定波長の光を出射する光源と、光を受光し電気信号に変換する光電変換部と、光源にケア部位に対し光を出射させ、ケア部位からの反射光の光電変換部によって変換された電気信号に基づき画像データを取得する撮像部530と、撮像部が取得した画像データに基づき、ケア部位の歯垢量を検出するための歯垢検出部540と、部位推定部により推定されるケア部位と、当該ケア部位について歯垢検出部により検出される歯垢量とを対応付けてメモリに記憶するための記憶部55と、を備える。【選択図】図6
