As a personal nurse, I have been recommending children over 4 years old to use children's electric toothbrushes, but due to the influx of various cross-border brands and Internet celebrity brands into the market in recent years, their poor professional and technical strength, lack of age-specific design, and the number of inferior children's electric toothbrushes has skyrocketed, resulting in more and more cases of children's electric toothbrushes hurting their teeth. Considering that most parents do not know how to avoid the harm, I use this article to popularize the harm of children's electric toothbrushes, and give a reliable way to solve the dangers of children's electric toothbrushes, I hope that all parents can study carefully and be responsible for children's oral health!
The picture above is a children's electric toothbrush that I have reviewed.
1. The three major hazards of doxxing inferior children's electric toothbrushes!
What are the dangers of children's electric toothbrushes? Unprofessional children's electric toothbrushes will indeed endanger oral health, and the oral quality of children in China is too poor, the rate of children's caries is as high as 72% (as shown in the figure below), in different stages of development, children's oral environment is also different, in such an oral environment, whether it is a manual toothbrush or an electric toothbrush, once selected and used wrongly, there will be harm to the teeth, such as the following:
Hazard 1: Aggravate the underlying dental disease
Many children already suffer from dental disease, and once an inferior electric toothbrush is used, it is easy to directly aggravate the original dental problem, resulting in the continuous deterioration of the child's oral environment.
Hazard 2: May cause chronic tooth problems
If you use an unprofessional electric toothbrush to brush your child's teeth for a long time, it is likely to bring chronic tooth injury, which has a strong concealment, and it usually takes a few months or years for children to show obvious symptoms, which is often ignored by everyone, but once this damage occurs, it is irreversible.
Hazard 3: Cause tooth bleeding, toothache and other problems
Inferior children's electric toothbrushes generally have problems such as uneven vibration frequency and lack of age-specific design, and children are prone to tooth soreness, gum bleeding and other abnormalities after using such electric toothbrushes.
2. Why does using a children's electric toothbrush hurt my teeth?
The above dangers of children's electric toothbrushes have indeed made many children suffer, so it is necessary for us to find ways to avoid their harms. This requires us to first find out what the cause of the tooth injury is, and then we can take the right medicine! So why do children's electric toothbrushes hurt teeth? The following picture is the statistics of the causes of tooth injury made by an authoritative dental institution, it can be seen that there are many reasons for the tooth injury problem of children's electric toothbrush, and I will summarize the five most common causes of tooth injury for you:
Reason 1: Use influencer products
In order to better control the production cost, they generally choose cheap materials to make children's electric toothbrushes, the cost is dozens of yuan, but the price can reach hundreds of yuan, merchants are keen on advertising, but ignore the core technology research of children's electric toothbrushes, the technical strength of tooth protection is insufficient, the age-specific design is not in place, and the product has a high rate of tooth injury.
Reason 2: The way of brushing is wrong, choose a toothbrush with low fault tolerance
Many children do not have the correct way to brush their teeth, if parents choose children's electric toothbrushes for children with a low tolerance rate, it is not only difficult to achieve the ideal cleaning effect, but also easy to cause tooth damage such as gum bleeding, tooth sensitivity, tooth pain, etc.
Reason 3: Age-specific design is not taken into account
Professional children's electric toothbrushes will pay more attention to age-specific design, and most of the inferior children's electric toothbrushes have ignored this, but children's oral state will develop rapidly at the age of 3-12 years old, if the children's electric toothbrush age-specific design is not scientific, the brush head type is less, the frequency range is narrow, it is difficult to meet the child's various cleaning needs, but it is more likely to hurt teeth.
Reason 4: The child's oral tolerance is low
In fact, most of the children's oral environment in China is not very healthy, the oral tolerance is low, if parents also use inferior or inappropriate children's electric toothbrushes for children, it is likely to cause tooth damage to children's teeth and gums, resulting in frequent tooth problems.
Reason 5: Buy low-priced and low-quality products
The most important thing is that this kind of electric toothbrush lacks the core gum protection and tooth protection technology precipitation, and has not been designed for the oral environment of children of different ages.
3. Share the eight major children's electric toothbrush purchase strategies
What are the dangers of children's electric toothbrushes? The reasons for the tooth injury of these children's electric toothbrushes analyzed above actually point to one point, that is, improper product selection, so to solve the problem of children's electric toothbrushes hurting teeth, it is mainly necessary to start with the purchase of children's electric toothbrushes. So how can you choose a professional and high-quality children's electric toothbrush? I have summarized the eight ** purchase strategies for you, let's take a look.
Strategy 1: Compatibility should be high enough. Children's oral needs are different at different stages, so in order to achieve a higher degree of matching, parents should choose an electric toothbrush with excellent compatibility for children.
Strategy 2: It is best to choose products with age-specific design. As children's gums and teeth continue to grow, it is more necessary to use children's electric toothbrushes with age-specific design, which often have multiple types of cleaning brush heads, and the frequency range between gears is large enough to better match the oral cleaning needs of children of different ages.
Strategy 3: Be cautious when buying U-shaped children's electric toothbrushes. U-shaped children's electric toothbrush is not as good as advertised by the business, in fact, the tooth protection and cleaning power of this type of product are not very ideal, and it is difficult to match the child's tooth type, which is more likely to cause frequent tooth damage.
Strategy 4: Don't believe in gimmicks such as "antibacterial" and "fluoride" bristles. Many children's electric toothbrush brands will forcibly attach various antibacterial, fluoride and other marketing selling points to the bristles during publicity, which will raise the IQ tax of the product, which is actually useless, so don't be gullible.
Strategy 5: Choose a brand with a high degree of professionalism. In addition to having rich experience in oral care, it will also repeatedly optimize and adjust more than 100 core parameters such as the compatibility of children's electric toothbrushes, motors, gum and tooth protection experience, vibration frequency, etc., so that the products can meet the needs of children of different ages and achieve ideal cleaning and dental care effects.
Strategy 6: Choose products with a roundness rate higher than 80%. The higher the roundness, the better the tooth protection and cleaning effect, so parents must choose products with a roundness rate higher than 80%, and those products that are lower than 80% are not recommended to buy.
Strategy 7: It is better to have a moderate thickness of the handle. The thickness of the handle will also affect the experience of children using children's electric toothbrushes, and the thickness of the handle of some children's electric toothbrushes is no different from the ** model, it is difficult for children to hold for a long time, it is inconvenient to brush their teeth, and children are easy to resist brushing after a long time, and the key is that the cleaning effect is not ideal.
Strategy 8: Buy a brand with good after-sales service. It is recommended that you choose an electric toothbrush brand that can support a seven-day trial, so that children can try the electric toothbrush first and then decide whether to stay, if you feel that it is not suitable, you can also return it in time, the product has a higher fault tolerance rate, and the unit price of the replacement brush head also needs to be appropriate, after all, the brush head is a consumable, if the brush head is sold very expensive, the follow-up cost will be relatively large.
In addition to sharing the purchase strategy of children's electric toothbrushes, I would also like to remind everyone to be wary of those children's electric toothbrush brands on the market that promote gum and tooth protection, most of them are disguised as tooth wounds. If you want to choose a children's electric toothbrush that really has good cleaning power and does not hurt your teeth, you can refer to the following list of children's electric toothbrush cleaning power and dental protection index released by a professional testing agency to choose.
In terms of technology and professionalism, Huile is an old brand of professional technologyIt is the originator of the domestic "tooth-free" field, and it is the most professional and outstanding technology in this fieldIt is also the only brand that has been certified by the European Union, the United States and other countries! It is a very rare brand of children's electric toothbrush with a medical background and strict medical research and development standardsExclusive research and development of eight major performance and tooth-free black technology,Such as V-ZUS intelligent engine algorithm, innovative gingival high-frequency array massage technology, DPP micro-frequency dynamic compensation technology, etc., so that the ...The cleaning power is the strongest among children's electric toothbrushes, and the tooth injury rate is the lowest in China, the cleaning residue rate is less than 2%, the compatibility of different ages is increased by 80%, and the cleaning power is top-notch and reduces the brushing injury by 90% by the national authoritative testing agency, and it is rare to obtain certification from the European Union and other countries! The power is strong and the attenuation degree is very low, the vibration frequency stability and balance is very strong, the compatibility with the domestic complex children's teeth is very good, and after more than 6 years of anti-attenuation design and testing, it has achieved 6 years of comprehensive performance, durability, tooth injury rate certification, and the non-toxic and corrosion resistance of the bristles has been improved by 983%, safer and non-toxic. The key to what their family can do is to focus and be professional! For the sake of high performance, no redundant functions and no redundant models, we have been stumbling on one product for seven or eight years, iterating more than 20 times, optimizing more than 300 details, and creating eight "high-performance and non-tooth-harming" black technologies.
It is the first to create a "six-type segmented care" for children, and strictly segmented and targeted care is carried out according to the characteristics of children's teeth. It is well-known for claiming to use 300% technology to smash international brands with a high rate of tooth injury. It has pioneered a number of "high-performance non-tooth-harming" technologies, and has been adjusted for more than 100 parameters such as motor and vibration frequency for many years for more than 6 yearsThe overall performance deviation value is not higher than 01%。Never advertised, but was recommended by a dentist to bring fire, offline channel sales are hot, and often sell out. Many celebrity and celebrity parents have chosen their products for their children. Its professional, high-performance, safe and rigorous style has been recognized as a medical product for electric toothbrushes, and dentists have recognized that it is super protective of the oral cavity!
Philips is well-known, the measured seismic sense and power are strong, as a European and American brand,It is more suitable for European and American children with high oral toleranceIn terms of after-sales, Philips does not support trials, and the brush head needs 100-150 yuan a year. Huile not only supports trials, but also gives away 5-year brush heads for a limited time, saving hundreds of yuan in total.
In addition, there are people who strongly want to recommend low-priced productsBayer can try,The basic function experience can meet the entry requirements of people who are not high, do not support trial, unpack and do not return, and the cost of brushing the head is about 80-100 yuan a year.
4. Do dentists recommend electric toothbrushes for children?
Since the dangers of inferior children's electric toothbrushes do exist, do professional dentists support us to use children's electric toothbrushes? In fact, the harm of children's electric toothbrushes can be avoided through reasonable use and selection, and there are many children's oral problems in China, the incidence of tooth decay is as high as 70%, the children's oral environment is complex, the difficulty of care is upgraded, and manual toothbrushes can not fully meet the cleaning needs of children, so dentists believe that children over 4 years old should use children's electric toothbrushes to improve the quality of oral cleaning and prevent and improve dental diseases. So what are the benefits of using a children's electric toothbrush? There are five main aspects:
Advantage 1: The cleaning ability is more powerful, and it has a certain effect on preventing tooth decay
The cleaning ability of children's electric toothbrushes is far stronger than that of manual toothbrushes, especially for the dead corners that manual toothbrushes cannot take care of, such as between teeth, gingival sulcus, back of teeth and other areas with high incidence of dental disease, the cleaning effect is more significant, and it completely removes plaque in the mouth, which has a good effect on preventing tooth decay.
Advantage 2: The vibration frequency is uniform and stable, and the brushing intensity can be accurately controlled
With the use of manual toothbrushes, children cannot accurately control the brushing strength at all, and it is easy to hurt various teeth, but the use of professional children's electric toothbrushes can not only achieve uniform and stable vibration, but also accurately control the brushing strength, strong tooth protection ability, and is not easy to hurt teeth.
Advantage 3: It is fun and makes children prefer to brush their teeth
The design of children's electric toothbrushes is generally very good, with strong fun, and stickers will be included, which can better stimulate children's interest in brushing their teeth, and they will not be too exclusive to brushing.
Advantage 4: The threshold for use is low, and the operation for children is simpler
The use of manual toothbrushes requires children to control their brushing strength, but most children under the age of 10 cannot flexibly control the intensity and do not have much patience, so it is actually difficult to complete the brushing behavior for ten minutes. The use of children's electric toothbrushes not only has a low threshold for brushing, but also makes the operation simpler, so children can get started quickly.
Advantage 5: Save time and effort, and have both cleaning and dental protection effects
Manual toothbrushes take at least ten minutes to achieve the ideal cleaning effect, but most children do not have much patience, so the cleaning effect is difficult to achieve, and the use of professional children's electric toothbrushes only takes 2-3 minutes, which can bring good cleaning results, and the ability to protect teeth is also very strong.
I hope that parents can remember the various children's electric toothbrush purchase knowledge shared in the article, and can choose high-quality children's electric toothbrushes with high professionalism and strong gum and tooth protection ability, so that children's mouths become healthier! As for those unprofessional Internet celebrity brands and cross-border brands, their children's electric toothbrushes generally have a high rate of tooth injury, so everyone should buy carefully!