Oral B triumph 5000 smartguide

moneylover

Hello, have just had one of these for a week, my Sonicaire having packed up.
I do like the round brush head but am a bit muddled with the brush heads - mine came with three a blue one for sensitive teeth ; a blue green and white floss action for intedental brushing and a yellow,green , blue white for 'whitening teeth by removing surface stains'
Is the floss action the standard one to use? Its the only one I have tried so far. Made my gums a litttle sore at the beginning and seems strangely hard, there is no 'give' in it like a normal toothbrush or my Sonicare. I expect its a different feeling thats all, but I am scared it might damage or scratch my teeth
What do other people normally use.
I tend, by the way, not to use the smartguide, I am pretty experienced with an electric toothbrush to be able to time accurately. I cant see it has any other advantages?
Manythanks
Hilary

Toothsmith

The Smartguide has a little red light that comes n if you push on too hard - which is useful.

As for the head, I'd use whichever one feels best, and seems to work. There are lots of heads in the top models, but I feel that can get too confusing.

You won't damage your teeth with a (genuine) Oral B head, so don't worry about that.

moneylover

oh, thanks maybe I should hook up the smart guide just to check am not brushing too hard - the book does say that the sound changes too and I have experimented with that so that can hear the difference so am probably ok. Just diff from Sonicare I guess thats all. I do love electric toothbrushes.

nicolax

is this toothbrush really as good as the reviews say? i have seen it on offer at £80 (with staff disc 73ish) and have been considering getting it but am not sure if can justify that on a toothbrush. at the moment i have the entry level oral-b

moneylover

well i dont know that I would bother to pay for smartguide being used to electric toothbrushes but I think that you need to compare stuff like brush heads and speed that it works at. I paid £73 at Amazon and at the moment (wherever you buy it) you get an extended 3 year warranty if you register the brush

Toothsmith

I have said on many threads about electric brushes that the Oral B brushes around the £20-£30 mark have just the same head speed and action as those right up at the top of the range.

And that's the thing that actually cleans your teeth. As you go up the price range, you get extra knobs, whistles and bells - but nothing added that will do a better job of cleaning the teeth.

Personally, I'm not a fan of ultrasonic toothbrushes. I wouldn't recommend anyone to bin it if you have one, but when it's time to replace, then I think the osscilating/pulsating oral B is more effective. No need to go right to the top of the range though, unless you want to).

(P.S. I have no connection with Oral B professionally!)