Electric Toothbrushes

Horace

I have used a Braun Oral B electric toothbrush for the last 6 years, I swear by it despite the heads being expensive (a pack of 3 is £5.99 in Tesco) but hey ho they last longer than the manual toothbrushes. My dental hygiene has improved no end since I started using the electric toothbrush - my dentist who recommended it agrees, now when I visit for a check up I hardly ever need to have fillings. I had a filling fall out earlier this year but that was soon replaced without anaesthetic.

Another good place to buy electric toothbrushes is from the dentist - I am on my second Oral B (I upgraded but kept the old one and still use it, it lives in my partners flat), it cost me £19.99 from the dentist. Both of mine have 2 minute timers on them and the brushing is deeper and better.

My partner's sister is a dentist and she gave him one of those new fancy electric toothbrushes that retails at £100 but he had a fit when he saw that replacement heads cost £10 a time - she is too mean to give him free heads too.:rotfl:

Toothsmith

If you put 'electric toothbrush', or 'sonic toothbrush', or 'oral b' into the search bit at the top of the page, you'll see several similar threads.

dawnydee73

Treat yourself, I wouldn't go back to a manual, your teeth just feel so much cleaner. I've got a Oral-B sonic complete

Petal_3

We have a Philips Sonicare and love it! 2 min timer and dental hygiene has improved too (although we do both see a hygienist every 4 months anyway)

~x~

sandy2_2

Just bought Oral B 8500, previously had a sonic elite. Both are quite good, although work in different ways. There are lots of half price offers about at the moment

moomin_white

spiritus wrote: »

I'm thinking of treating myself to one this Christmas.

Has anyone any experience of using these ?

electric toothbrushes are great and there's loads on offer for half price in Boots at the moment.

clinical tests have proven than electric toothbrushes do remove more plaque than a manual brush - so they're definatley worth it

personally ,i think oral b ones are better than the sonic ones. The problem with sonic brushes is that they are very soft/gentle and not everyone gets on with the vibrations. Also the the replacement heads are much cheaper with the Oral B brushes!.

Toothsmith

I would disagree.

Oscillating/pulsating is much better. The sonic ones just don't have the power to do what they claim to do.

[Deleted User]

I hope someone can help. I'm feeling very stupid!

I bought a Braun 8500 (on the recommendation of this board) - taking up the half price offer at Boots. I got it home and realise that you need to plug it into a two-pin (shaver?) socket. Well, I live in a bedsit so I don't have one of those. I've bought an adaptor plug so that the two pin can fit into the usual three pin socket (hope that makes sense), but I cannot get the toothbrush to charge.

I'm sure it's simple, but can someone please tell me why the brush might not be charging. I've already taken the original purchase back to Boots and swopped it, so I'm sure the charger is fine, but what do I need to do to get the thing charged up and ready to go?

Hope someone can help.

Thanks,
Hiphouse

sandy2_2

Did you get a shaver socket plug or just a 2 pin adaptor, sorry if thats a bit basic.
I've just got mine and ended up changing the plug on the appliance as my adaptor wouldn't work here in Spain. But when I did get it to work the iniale charge took about 20hours before the blue flashing light went out. But now it's up and running I'm very pleased with it

anonymousie

Deleted_User wrote: »

I hope someone can help. I'm feeling very stupid!

I bought a Braun 8500 (on the recommendation of this board) - taking up the half price offer at Boots. I got it home and realise that you need to plug it into a two-pin (shaver?) socket. Well, I live in a bedsit so I don't have one of those. I've bought an adaptor plug so that the two pin can fit into the usual three pin socket (hope that makes sense), but I cannot get the toothbrush to charge.

I'm sure it's simple, but can someone please tell me why the brush might not be charging. I've already taken the original purchase back to Boots and swopped it, so I'm sure the charger is fine, but what do I need to do to get the thing charged up and ready to go?

Hope someone can help.

Thanks,
Hiphouse

Personally I'm a manual toothbrush gal, but then I am so paranoid re dentists that my teeth are so clean I have started wearing them away at the gum:o

The kids have oral B electric ones that are rechargeable and great. DH cut the 2 pin plug off the charger and put a 3 pin one on which would be a good idea, as long as you haven't got a faulty charger!