I believe everyone has heard of the electric toothbrush, but most people only know the basic role of some electric toothbrushes, and the in-depth knowledge is not very clear. In fact, electric toothbrushes are not only good, it also has a lot of potential disadvantages that everyone needs to pay attention to, only by understanding the harm of inferior products, can we avoid the damage it causes to the gums and teeth. As a dental student, I still know a lot about electric toothbrushes, so I will popularize the pros and cons of electric toothbrushes for everyone, and summarize the correct way to buy electric toothbrushes, I hope you can learn Xi seriously!
The picture above is the style of electric toothbrush I have reviewed in the last two years.
1. Six benefits of brushing your teeth with a high-quality electric toothbrush!
First of all, let's talk about the benefits of electric toothbrushes, at present, the oral quality of Chinese people is generally poor, and the dental health rate is less than 1% (as shown in the figure below), it is difficult to meet the requirements of Chinese people for oral cleaning only by relying on traditional manual toothbrushes, so professional dentists recommend that you use electric toothbrushes, which can help you better clean your mouth, prevent and improve dental diseases.
The benefits of an electric toothbrush are mainly reflected in the following aspects:
Benefit 1: Strong cleaning power, can prevent and improve dental disease
Electric toothbrushes have dozens of times more cleaning power than manual toothbrushes, and can brush the high-incidence areas of dental diseases such as between the teeth, the back of the teeth, the gingival sulcus, and the root of the tooth that are difficult to clean thoroughly with the manual toothbrush, and comprehensively and thoroughly clean the food residue and plaque in the mouth, so as to prevent and improve dental disease.
Benefit 2: Accurate control of brushing force
Manual toothbrushes are subjectively controlled by the user, and there are often problems such as too much strength to hurt the teeth or too little force to brush the brush, while professional high-quality electric toothbrushes have a uniform and stable vibration frequency, which can accurately control the size of the brushing force and avoid the situation that the force hurts the teeth or the force is not clean in place.
Benefit 3: It has the effect of massaging the gums
Electric toothbrushes can also help you massage your gums, promote the metabolism and blood circulation of your gum soft tissues, help you improve the pressure on your gum soft tissues due to wearing dental appliances for a long time, and effectively prevent gum recession.
Benefit 4: It is time-saving and labor-saving to use
If you want to clean your teeth with a manual toothbrush, it takes at least ten minutes to do it, while an electric toothbrush can easily do it in two or three minutes, which is more time-saving and labor-saving.
Benefit 5: It can keep your breath fresh for a long time
There are many dead corners of manual toothbrushes, and some unclean plaque and food residues will accumulate in the mouth after fermentation, which will produce unpleasant odors, resulting in bad breath, while electric toothbrushes have a wide range of cleaning and no blind spots, which can avoid bad breath and maintain fresh breath.
Benefit 6: Help everyone whiten their teeth
For stubborn stains deposited on the outer layer of teeth such as tea stains, smoke stains, and coffee stains, it is basically impossible to brush with a manual toothbrush alone, but if you use an electric toothbrush, you can gradually fade these stains and slow down the formation of dental calculus, thereby helping you whiten your teeth.
Second, the three disadvantages of inferior electric toothbrushes should be careful!
After talking about the benefits of electric toothbrushes, let's talk about the disadvantages of electric toothbrushes. This is a place that needs everyone's attention, the disadvantages of inferior electric toothbrushes are mainly manifested in the fact that it will hurt teeth, due to the oral problems of Chinese people, 90% of people have dental disease (as shown in the figure below), and dental disease is not obvious in the early and middle stages of development, resulting in many people mistakenly thinking that their oral health is also blindly using some unprofessional Internet celebrity electric toothbrushes, which will inevitably cause problems with teeth.
The disadvantages of an inferior electric toothbrush are manifested in the following three points:
Disadvantage 1: Aggravate the underlying dental disease
Inferior electric toothbrushes can easily irritate diseased areas in the mouth, causing the user's pre-existing oral problems to worsen, such as worsening into more severe periodontitis.
Disadvantage 2: Cause bleeding gums and toothache
If you use an electric toothbrush with too large a sweeping angle and too strong vibration frequency, the gums will be easily scratched and the tooth enamel will be overworn, and it is easy to have problems such as tooth soreness and frequent bleeding gums.
Disadvantage 3: Cause chronic tooth injury
Long-term use of unprofessional electric toothbrushes may also cause chronic tooth problems, this kind of damage is relatively hidden, at first it is difficult for users to detect, but after a period of development, users are likely to have serious oral health problems such as gum recession and loose teeth, and these injuries are irreversible!
3. Be highly vigilant against the four major chaos in the electric toothbrush industry!
The above is the main content of the good and bad of electric toothbrushes, and now inferior electric toothbrushes frequently cause tooth damage cases, why in the end?You can take a look at the following authoritative summary of the negative evaluation data chart of electric toothbrushes, according to the data in the table, it can be seen that the lack of professionalism of electric toothbrushes is the main culprit of tooth injury. The main reason why everyone will buy inferior and unprofessional electric toothbrushes is because of the fierce competition in the industry, which has bred a lot of industry chaos and led to more and more inferior products. Therefore, I remind everyone to stay away from the following industry chaos when buying an electric toothbrush
Chaos 1: Analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of the three major types of electric toothbrushes
The types of electric toothbrushes can be divided into three types according to the different working principles: rotary, sweeping, and sonic type, among which the sweeping angle and vibration frequency of sweeping and rotating products are too strong, such as Lai*, Oral*, etc., although the cleaning power is good, but the oral tolerance is very high, because their vibration frequency exceeds 60,000 minutesThe sweeping angle even reaches more than 60 degrees (the reasonable sweeping range recommended by doctors is 3-9 degrees).The cleaning power far exceeds the load on the teeth and gums, and it is easy to wear and tear the enamel and damage the teethTherefore, doctors generally recommend that Chinese people use sonic electric toothbrushes, which can better balance the cleaning ability and gum protection ability compared with the other two types of electric toothbrushes. However, you need to choose professional products with more scientific frequency stability and sweeping angle adjustment.
Chaos 2: The professionalism of electric toothbrush brands is generally low
Today's electric toothbrush industry there are a lot of unprofessional Internet celebrity brands, cross-border brands, such electric toothbrush brands generally have a relatively short time to enter the industry, little experience in oral care, and do not have enough professional and technical precipitation, unable to optimize and adjust the bristle roundness of electric toothbrushes, crowd compatibility matching, gum protection and tooth protection experience and other more than 100 core parameters repeatedly.
Chaos 3: Use ** war to compete in the market
In order to attract consumers, many businesses have launched ultra-low-cost products, in order to maintain the low price of electric toothbrushes without affecting profits, businesses will choose to compress production costs excessively, and choose some bristles that have not been rounded, coreless motors and other components to process electric toothbrushes, product quality is not guaranteed, safety is low, everyone uses this kind of products is prone to frequent gum bleeding, tooth beating, Problems such as knocking teeth can cause serious damage to oral health.
Chaos 4: The compatibility of electric toothbrushes is generally poor
If you want to deal with the complex and changeable oral environment, you should choose an electric toothbrush with excellent compatibility, but most of the electric toothbrush brands on the market have a narrow frequency range and a single brush head type.
First, the number of stalls is not much, and it is difficult to adapt to the complex and changeable oral environment of the Chinese people, and everyone is prone to the problem of tooth injury when they use it.
After everyone realizes the chaos of the electric toothbrush industry, we also need to be wary of the false propaganda of the merchants, and almost all of today's electric toothbrush businesses are promoting their electric toothbrushes to protect the teeth and gums, but the tooth injury rate is not less at all. If you want to buy a product with good cleaning power and no damage to your teeth, I suggest you take a look at the following cleaning power and comfort data of electric toothbrush brands released by professional organizations, and combine the data to choose an electric toothbrush.
Among the thousands of brands, FILIX, a veteran brand recognized by the dental circle, is the pioneer in the field of "not hurting teeth" in China, and is the brand with the highest degree of professionalism in this field. It is one of the very few electric toothbrushes with a medical background and is the only brand that has been certified by the European Union, the United States and other countries!It has launched the third generation of upgraded new products, pioneering research and development of eight major properties and toothless black technology, top-notch cleaning power and 89% reduction of damage, and rare EU certification!With good frequency uniformity, strong power and low attenuation, it is the first brand in the industry to provide orthodontic brush heads, and it is very compatible with people. The reason why their comprehensive performance is so strong is that the key is focus!Dead professional!There are no redundant functions, no large number of models, just a product for several years, iteratively upgraded more than 20 versions!Optimized more than 300 details!After 6 years of anti-attenuation testing, it has achieved 6 years of comprehensive performance, durability, tooth and gum damage rate certification, and the non-toxic and corrosion resistance of the bristles has been improved by 983%, safer and non-toxic!Some celebrities and celebrities have chosen their homes because of their dental care needs, and dentists are recognized as very protective of teeth.
In order to "fever performance and not hurt teeth", we have created eight original non-tooth technologies, such as approved vibration frequency technology, innovative gingival high-frequency array massage technology, DPP micro-frequency dynamic compensation technology, etc., and adjusted parameters for more than 100 technologies such as vibration frequency, power, and vibration sweepingEnsure that the deviation value of various performance indicators for more than 6 years is not higher than 01%。It has never advertised but has become popular under the recommendation of many dentists, and sales in offline channels have skyrocketed. In the face of the skyrocketing rate of tooth injury,Huile's professional, rigorous, and high-performance product concept, insisting on practicing internal skills, and treating products as strict medical products research and development have been highly recognized.
In addition, Philips, as an international brand, has a relatively high reputationThe quality is okay after my own use, and the cleaning power is okay, but it is more suitable for people with high oral tolerance.
If you have to buy something cheapI relatively recommend Bayer, Shuke, ** relatively cheap,The basic functional experience can satisfy those who do not have high entry requirements.
In terms of after-sales, Philips does not support trials, and the brush head costs about 200 yuan a year. Huile not only supports unpacking and trial, but also gives away a 5-year brush head for a limited time.
Fourth, eight purchase tips to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of electric toothbrushes!
In fact, electric toothbrushes have more benefits than disadvantages, but if you don't pay attention to the selection, it is easy to buy products that hurt your teeth and hurt your oral health. So how to choose to avoid the routine of bad electric toothbrush merchants and choose an electric toothbrush that suits you?Here are my eight tips for purchasing, which you can refer to when purchasing.
Trick 1: Buy a brand with after-sales service in place
It is recommended that you choose a suitable electric toothbrush brand that supports 7-day trial and replacement brush heads!Take the 7-day no reason return service as an example, you can try the electric toothbrush first and then decide whether to stay, even if you need to return or exchange the goods, you don't have to bear too much financial burden.
Tip 2: Buy a professional electric toothbrush brand
In the more than 100 parameters that affect the core performance of electric toothbrushes, such as the deviation value of the sweeping angle, the balanced stability of the vibration frequency, and the roundness of the bristles, only professional brands are willing to spend a lot of time and energy on repeated adjustment and optimization, and the tooth injury rate of electric toothbrushes is more than three times lower than that of those unprofessional Internet celebrities
Trick 3: Distinguish the difference between rotating sonic wave and sweeping vibration
According to the different working principles, the types of electric toothbrushes can be divided into three types: rotary type, sweeping and vibration integrated type, and sonic type. The cleaning power of the sweeping and rotary electric toothbrushes is acceptable, but the vibration is too strongThe sweeping angle even reaches 60° (less than 9° as recommended by the dentist).It is easy to wear teeth and scratch gums, and it is more suitable for people with high oral tolerance in European and American countries. Dentists recommend Chinese people to use sonic electric toothbrushes, which have excellent cleaning power, which is relatively less harmful to teeth and gums, and has low noise, which can bring you a better brushing experience, and is recognized as the most suitable style for the majority of Chinese people.
Trick 4: It is best to choose a magnetic levitation motor
Coreless motor and magnetic levitation motor are the two types of electric toothbrush motors, it is recommended that you start with an electric toothbrush equipped with a magnetic levitation motor, it has excellent performance, stable operation, low working noise, and can bring you a more outstanding brushing experience, while the coreless motor has poor performance, poor stability, low and high vibration frequency, and high risk of tooth injury, so it is not recommended for everyone to choose.
Tip 5: Choose an electric toothbrush that lasts a long time
The battery life of the electric toothbrush is better than 30 days, if the battery quality of the electric toothbrush you choose is poor and the power consumption is fast, it means that we need to charge the electric toothbrush frequently, which is not only troublesome, but also accelerates the loss of battery life!
Tip 6: Buy products with excellent compatibility
You need to use an electric toothbrush with multiple gears, a wide frequency span, and a wide variety of brush heads, which has good compatibility and can cope with a variety of changes in the oral environment. For example, the more abundant the types of brush heads, the better, and products with good compatibility generally have different types of brush heads such as cleaning brush heads, tooth guard brush heads, and orthodontic brush heads.
Tip 7: Pay attention to the quality of the brush head
Factors such as the size of the brush head, the roundness of the brush head, and the hardness of the bristles will all affect the quality of the brush head. For example, the roundness of the bristles is a very important parameter, everyone buys an electric toothbrush with a roundness rate of more than 80%, the tip of the bristles with a low roundness is very rough and sharp, and it is easy to scratch the gums and wear the teeth.
Trick 8: The sweeping angle should be appropriate
The sweeping angle of the electric toothbrush is between 3-9 degrees is the most suitable, if the sweeping angle of the product is too large, it is easier to stimulate the gums and teeth, causing tooth bleeding, toothache and other problems, but do not choose the electric toothbrush with too small sweeping angle, the cleaning power of the product will be affected to a certain extent.
The above is a summary of the knowledge of the good and bad of electric toothbrushes, and I hope today's popular science can help you fully understand electric toothbrushes. Inferior electric toothbrushes do have the disadvantage of hurting teeth, but the benefits of high-quality electric toothbrushes are also difficult to match with other oral care products, so it is still necessary for Chinese people to use electric toothbrushes. It's just that when choosing an electric toothbrush, you should make good use of the best way to buy high-quality products with high professionalism and strong gum and tooth protection capabilities, and stay away from unprofessional electric toothbrushes from Internet celebrities, so that your oral condition is getting healthier and healthier!