now to the drawings and particularly to fig1 through 5 there is shown a first preferred embodiment of a force indicating toothbrush of the present invention generally indicated as 20 force indicating toothbrush 20 comprises a hollow handle 22 having an adjustable portion 24 movably attached to hollow handle 22 and a brush member 26 having a brush head 27 attached at one end attached to brush head 27 are bristles 28 fig2 is a cross sectional view of force indicating toothbrush 20 of fig1 showing hollow handle 22 further comprising a latching end 30 and a connecting end 32 brush member 26 is shown attached to the connecting end 32 of hollow handle 22 by means of a friction joint 34 at connecting point 36 friction joint 34 enables brush member 26 to pivot relative to hollow handle 22 fig3 and 4 are enlarged sectioned views of fig2 showing the latching end 30 of hollow handle 22 adjustable portion 24 is shown further comprising magnet 38 and 34 l 34 shaped member 40 brush member 26 is shown further comprising magnetic surface 42 magnetic attraction latches magnetic surface 42 to magnet 38 along a contact area 44 between them magnetic surface 42 may be a magnetically attracted material such as soft iron or another magnet greater or lesser surface area engagement of magnet 38 and magnetic surface 42 and thus greater or lesser latching force may be accomplished by manually moving adjustable portion 24 along hollow handle 22 in order to vary contact area 44 in addition to magnetic latching secondary.