You can get a manual toothbrush for $1 or some fancy electric toothbrush for over $200. Can it really be cleaning your teeth that much better?
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Yes, a good quality electric toothbrush cleans your teeth and gum-line well, without fucking up your gums like over brushing with a manual toothbrush.
A mid priced Sonicare is an excellent long term investment, you can get a toothbrush handle, head, charger for around 100-110, and then 10-15$ heads every six months. You can keep using the handle for 5-10 years, they’re not prone to breaking.
You gotta know by now that companies will sell anything at a huge premium if they think someone will buy it. There are obviously enough that do to justify selling a $200 toothbrush.
There’s a ceiling to the efficacy of electronic toothbrushes, honestly. A $50 Oral B 1000 is a fantastic choice. It’s performs exactly the same function as the offering for $100 or $129 without the smart timers, Bluetooth, and charge capacity LED screen.
So, basically, an entry level electronic toothbrush offers basically the same thing, but less fancy. It’s a quality investment. Dental health is serious and can cost a fortune in time, money, and pain if not taken care of. I’ve seen multiple dentists and hygienists that have remarked how clean my teeth are since grabbing the cheaper electronic toothbrush and just getting good brush heads.
You can actually get low to middle end Sonicare toothbrushes for $30-50. I used to have one that was around $100, but the $50 one does the exact same job.
Yet another praise for the sonicare. Picked one up at Costco a few years ago and my dentist never has anything bad to say about cleanings. My gum health was typically not great because I never flossed. Now, I still don’t floss, but get much better gum health scores and they don’t lecture me about flossing anymore.
My sonicare also has an auto shutoff feature that gives an extra vibration every 30 seconds or so to remind you to brush a different area of your mouth, and then shuts off after two minutes. I usually break my mouth into quadrants and do one at a time until the timer tells me to switch. if I didn’t have this, with a manual brush I’d fly through and do a shitty job brushing.
All I know is my dental hygienist knew when I switched to an electric toothbrush, so apparently it makes a pretty big difference.
I have a sonicare, probably cost like $60 and every several months I buy a pack of new heads for about $15. I’m a fan, my teeth feel much cleaner with it than with a manual toothbrush. Regardless, whether it’s $60, $100, or $200, if a fancy toothbrush prevents literally 1 dental procedure, it’s paid for itself. That’s my logic.
Yes. Had gum issues. Had a gum graft. NOT doing that again. Bought a Sonicare once I knew I needed the surgery, probably 8 years ago, no issues since.
My sonicare and waterpik make my hygienist very happy. Effortless clean teeth. A couple hundred bucks well spent, overall.
Is it better to get an Oral B or Sonicare brush? Here in the UK, Orab B seems to be more popular but they both have very different ways of working
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