Test of electric toothbrushes: we try for a tooth

Accessories

Tooth­brush acces­sories are not nec­es­sary to ensure the best brush­ing results, but they can make every­day use of the gad­get a lit­tle more con­ve­nient. For exam­ple, a glass with induc­tion charg­ing looks much more ele­gant than a plas­tic charg­ing sta­tion. A trav­el pouch with a net­work con­nec­tor helps keep your lug­gage orga­nized. Save mon­ey with the includ­ed clean­ing heads. Brand­ed man­u­fac­tur­ers set a con­sid­er­able markup on acces­sories. The Braun com­pa­ny will require about 650 rubles from you for four noz­zles. Philips will even want to get about 1300 rubles, although the heads are sim­ple. Both Braun and Philips offer a wide range of heads for dif­fer­ent types of clean­ing, includ­ing remov­ing dirt between teeth and pol­ish­ing enam­el. Only Nevadent and Hap­py­brush have only one type of brush in their range.

Third-par­ty heads can be found for Braun and Philips. In cas­es with both brands, when choos­ing a clone, you can meet 65 rubles. for the head. It should be not­ed that the “non-orig­i­nal” Oral‑B head is much more like­ly to not fit com­plete­ly or break quick­ly due to the fact that it con­sists of mov­ing parts.

Modes

The tooth­brush­es we test­ed give a good idea of ​​the vari­ety of brush­ing modes. Along with dai­ly brush­ing, there is a mode for sen­si­tive teeth with reduced gad­get per­for­mance and an even more gen­tle clean­ing mode for gums to take care of inflamed areas. Both Braun and Philips offer pro­grams for pol­ish­ing and whiten­ing, as well as tongue clean­ing. How­ev­er, cheap­er mod­els offer sen­si­tive teeth mode, but whiten­ing, tongue clean­ing or tur­bo mode will require an addi­tion­al charge, although all this would require only min­i­mal changes in the pro­gram­ming of the brush­es. In our opin­ion, the most request­ed would be the pres­ence of a pro­gram for clean­ing the gums. The tongue can be cleaned and “man­u­al­ly”.

The Philips Flex­Care stood out in a slight­ly orig­i­nal way dur­ing our test­ing: in addi­tion to the three main brush­ing modes, this mod­el offers a low, medi­um and high inten­si­ty lev­el for each of them. Thus, all nine modes are obtained. Sec­ond place goes to the Braun Oral‑B Genius 9000 with six (real) modes. How­ev­er, few of the brush­es sold in stores, includ­ing brand­ed man­u­fac­tur­ers, are far behind in this para­me­ter.

Comfort features and app

Today, even the most afford­able elec­tric tooth­brush­es are equipped with a two-minute timer. Thus, the pres­ence of this func­tion is no longer a strong argu­ment for choos­ing a par­tic­u­lar mod­el when buy­ing. But pres­sure sen­sors are still rare. Many expen­sive brush­es on a sig­nal from them can give out more pow­er. At the same time, if the gad­get con­sid­ers that you are press­ing too hard on your teeth, it can sig­nal this with the help of a light indi­ca­tor. In addi­tion, there are also mechan­i­cal sen­sors that work just as well. For exam­ple, the Oral‑B Pro 600 los­es pul­sa­tion and starts to sound dif­fer­ent. The roy­al test cat­e­go­ry for brush­ing com­fort is Appli­ca­tion. The Oral‑B Genius 9000 can offer an overview of your brush­ing pref­er­ences and you can also pro­gram your brush indi­vid­u­al­ly. In addi­tion, while brush­ing your teeth, you can dis­play news, sta­tis­tics or weath­er fore­cast on the smart­phone screen. Dur­ing our hands-on test of the Oral‑B White Pro 7000, we found the addi­tions to the app to be quite nice, but not real­ly nec­es­sary.