I'm a pretty late adopter of electric toothbrushes. I started using one, the base Oral B model, maybe 3 or 4 years ago?, and that was only because my daughter didn't like using it at that time.
That one's battery performance finally deteriorated enough to get a new one on the weekend, and I was surprised to learn that for only $99 I could buy an Oral B model with Bluetooth connectivity. It apparently tells an app on your phone about how well you are brushing.
This seems faintly ridiculous to me. (As indeed does that way Oral B seems to flood the market - which I assume it already dominates - with seemingly 12 different models, many with very small differences. It's a bit like how some mobile phone companies operate.) I don't want my brush reporting on me to my phone, or indeed, the head office.
Anyway, I went with what's probably only one model up in sophistication from the very base model. Now I not only have a 2 minute timer (which had stopped working on the old one), but every 30 seconds it stutters to tell me that I have spent enough time on that quadrant of my teeth, and I need to move onto the next quadrant. I actually like the 30 second feature.
Electric toothbrushes do feel like they have given teeth a thorough clean, and I see that research into the comparison with manual teeth-brushing backs up the impression.
I would prefer that the brush heads were cheaper, but can't have everything...
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