Before buying and using an electric toothbrush, it is necessary to understand the advantages and disadvantages of an electric toothbrush, so that everyone can better play the advantages of an electric toothbrush and avoid the harm of inferior electric toothbrushes. But in fact, due to the general lack of awareness of electric toothbrushes among Chinese people, many people blindly buy electric toothbrushes, which in turn causes many tooth problems. So what are the advantages and disadvantages of electric toothbrushes? As a nurse, I will talk to you about this issue today, and popularize the knowledge of electric toothbrushes for you from multiple perspectives, hoping that you can truly understand the product of electric toothbrushes.
Pictured above are some of the electric toothbrushes I've reviewed.
1. Summary of the six advantages of electric toothbrushes
What are the pros and cons of electric toothbrushes? Let's first take a look at the advantages of electric toothbrushes. In fact, Chinese people are very much in need of using electric toothbrushes, because the current oral health of Chinese people is not good, and the prevalence of dental disease exceeds 90% (see the figure below), in the face of such a complex and changeable oral environment, the traditional single manual toothbrush has been difficult to meet the oral care needs of Chinese people, so dentists recommend that we use electric toothbrushes.
The advantages of electric toothbrushes are mainly manifested in the following aspects:
Advantage 1: Electric toothbrushes have better cleaning effects and can prevent and improve oral problems
The cleaning power of the electric toothbrush is stronger, and it can brush the high-incidence areas of dental diseases such as tooth gaps, gingival sulcus, and backs of teeth that cannot be done with manual toothbrushes, comprehensively remove plaque, and help everyone prevent and improve dental diseases.
Advantage 2: It helps everyone to massage the gums
Electric toothbrushes can help you massage your gums, promote metabolism and blood circulation in the soft tissues of your gums, relieve the pressure on your gums soft tissues from braces, and prevent black triangle problems.
Advantage 3: It is more time-saving and labor-saving to use
If you want to use a manual toothbrush to clean your teeth, it takes at least 10 minutes to clean your teeth, while an electric toothbrush only takes two or three minutes, which is very time-saving and labor-saving, and is more suitable for office workers and students with a fast pace of life.
Advantage 4: Fresh breath
When brushing your teeth, manual toothbrushes have more cleaning dead corners, and unbrushed food residues and plaque remain in the mouth, which will ferment and emit unpleasant odors after a long time, while electric toothbrushes have no blind spots and dead corners, and have a wider cleaning range, which can avoid the appearance of oral odor and help you maintain fresh breath.
Advantage 5: The control of the cleaning force is very precise
The vibration frequency of the electric toothbrush is uniform and stable, which can accurately control the size of the brushing force, while the manual toothbrush is the user's own subjective control of the brushing strength, which is prone to small brushes and large force to hurt the teeth.
Advantage 6: Whiten teeth
The cleaning power of electric toothbrushes is relatively strong, and it can gradually brush the stubborn stains on the outer layer of teeth, such as coffee stains, tea stains, smoke stains, etc., and can also effectively inhibit the formation of dental calculus and achieve the effect of whitening teeth, while it is difficult to clean teeth with manual toothbrushes, let alone whiten teeth.
2. Pay attention to the three major disadvantages of inferior electric toothbrushes
What are the pros and cons of electric toothbrushes? After talking about the advantages of high-quality electric toothbrushes, what are the disadvantages of low-quality electric toothbrushes? In fact, its biggest disadvantage is the risk of tooth damage! The dental condition of Chinese people is generally very poor, the dental health rate is less than 1%, it can be said that everyone has dental disease, and because the symptoms of dental disease in the early and middle stages are not obvious, many people are sick without knowing it, but in fact, the tooth tolerance is already very low, if you use a very professional electric toothbrush at this time, it is inevitable that there will be a problem of being injured teeth.
The disadvantages of inferior electric toothbrushes are mainly manifested in the following three aspects:
Disadvantage 1Unprofessional electric toothbrushes brush the teeth with varying intensity, and the bristles are also very sharp and rough, and users often experience problems such as tooth soreness and gum bleeding after using such an electric toothbrush.
Disadvantage 2Dental disease is common in Chinese people, and if you use an inferior and unprofessional electric toothbrush to brush your teeth in such an oral environment, dental disease may worsen.
Disadvantage 3Inferior electric toothbrushes are also easy to cause chronic tooth problems, which is not unusual at first, but after a period of development, users are prone to irreparable oral problems such as gum recession and loose teeth.
3. Explore the four bad trends in the electric toothbrush industry!
Now we have a comprehensive understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of electric toothbrushes, and we know about its advantages, but we still have to pay enough attention to the shortcomings of inferior electric toothbrushes, find out the reasons behind them, and find ways to avoid them. So why does an inferior electric toothbrush hurt your teeth? I found an analysis chart of the causes of tooth injuries with electric toothbrushes from the dental forum. From the data in the figure, we can find that improper purchase of electric toothbrushes is the main reason for tooth damage. The reason why we don't choose the right electric toothbrush is that the electric toothbrush industry is too chaotic, all kinds of bad habits are prevalent, and inferior products are rampant, which makes it difficult for everyone to choose the right products for themselves.
Bad atmosphere 1: Product compatibility is generally poor
The oral environment of Chinese people is more complex and changeable, and it is more necessary to use electric toothbrushes with high compatibility, but unfortunately most of the products on the market have poor compatibility, and there is a list of brush head types.
1. The narrow span of the vibration frequency range and the small number of gears make it difficult for electric toothbrushes to adapt to the complex and changeable oral environment of Chinese people, and it is easy to cause tooth damage after use.
Bad Atmosphere 2: Fight ** war
In order to maintain the low price of electric toothbrushes without affecting profits, businesses will choose to excessively compress production costs, and the selection of materials can be saved, such as coreless motors, bristles that have not been rounded, etc. are commonly used components in products here, the quality of electric toothbrushes is not guaranteed, and the safety is also very low.
Bad atmosphere 3: The degree of professionalism is generally low
Many cross-border brands and Internet celebrity brands have poured into it to see the good development momentum of the electric toothbrush industry, such brands have been in the industry for a short time, and there is not enough oral care experience and professional technology precipitation, electric toothbrushes are generally processed and made in the form of OEM processing, which is not only very poor in use, but also easy to hurt teeth.
Bad Atmosphere 4: Becoming more and more Internet celebrities
Now many brands are developing in the direction of Internet celebrity, compared with the study of the electric toothbrush itself, businesses are more keen on the marketing hype of electric toothbrushes, relying on celebrity endorsements, Internet celebrities and other ways to attract consumers, but due to the general lack of professional technology precipitation of this type of electric toothbrush, the tooth injury rate is more than 3 times higher than that of professional electric toothbrush brands, and users often have tooth bleeding, toothache and other tooth problems after use.
In addition to these bad practices, don't be gullible about the promotion of dental and gum protection for electric toothbrush merchants, because most products can't achieve such an effect, and it is very easy to hurt your teeth when you actually use it. In order to avoid being pitted, here is a statistical chart of the cleanliness index and dental protection index of electric toothbrushes, which comes from authoritative oral forums, in which the data is detailed and reliable, and you can refer to it with confidence.
In terms of technology and professionalism, it is recognized that FILIX is a veteran brand of professional technology, and as the originator of the domestic "tooth-free" field, it is the best brand in this field. It is a very rare electric toothbrush, the only brand with a medical background and rigorous medical research and development standards, and has been certified by the European Union, the United States and other countries! The third generation of upgraded new products has been launched, pioneering research and development of eight major performance and tooth-friendly black technology, top-notch cleaning power and 89% reduction of damage, rare EU certification! It is the first brand in the industry to provide orthodontic brush heads, and it is very compatible with the teeth of complex people in China. It is well-known for claiming to use 300% technology to smash international brands with a high rate of tooth injury. The key to what their family can do is to focus and be professional! No redundant functions, no redundant models, just a product for seven or eight years, iterative upgrades more than 20 times, optimization of more than 300 details, after 6 years of anti-attenuation testing, to achieve 6 years of comprehensive performance, durability, teeth and gum damage rate certification, bristles non-toxic and corrosion resistance increased by 983%, safer and non-toxic!
At the same time, it has exclusively created eight "high-performance and non-tooth-harming" black technologies, such as approved vibration frequency technology, innovative gingival high-frequency array massage technology, DPP micro-frequency dynamic compensation technology, etc., and has been adjusted for more than 100 parameters such as vibration frequency and power for many yearsEnsure that the deviation value of each adjustment index for more than 6 years 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 celebrities and celebrities choose their homes because they need gum and tooth protection, and dentists recognize that they are very protective of teethIts professional, rigorous and safe R&D concept has been highly affirmed for its electric toothbrush as a medical product!
Philips is very well-known,Good quality, cleaning power OK. In addition, there are people who strongly want to recommend low-priced productsBayer can try,The basic functional experience can meet the needs of those who do not have high entry requirements.
In terms of after-sales, Philips does not support trials, and the cost of brushing heads is about 200 a year. Huile not only supports unpacking and trial, but also gives away a 5-year brush head for a limited time.
4. Eight tips for selecting high-quality electric toothbrushes!
The advantages and disadvantages of electric toothbrushes have been explained above, and the key to the advantages and disadvantages of electric toothbrushes lies in the electric toothbrushes you choose. If you choose the wrong and unprofessional product, it will hurt your teeth, and on the contrary, it will have many advantages. So how can you buy a high-quality electric toothbrush? Here are eight tips for everyone to bookmark.
1.Buy a professional electric toothbrush brand
Professional electric toothbrush brands will repeatedly adjust and optimize more than 100 core parameters of electric toothbrushes, such as vibration frequency range, crowd compatibility matching, gum protection and tooth protection experience, and vibration scanning angle, so that the product perfectly adapts to the oral environment of Chinese people, and the tooth injury rate is 300% lower than that of those unprofessional Internet celebrities.
2.After-sales service should be good
It is best to buy a brand that can be tried for 7 days and the brush head replacement cost is low, like the 7-day trial service is very good, you can try the quality of the electric toothbrush first and then decide whether to stay, and the cost of trial and error can be greatly reduced.
3.It is better to choose a magnetic levitation motor
The motor of the electric toothbrush is generally a magnetic levitation motor or a coreless motor, the vibration frequency of the coreless motor is not stable enough, the noise is large, and the risk of tooth injury is high, so it is not recommended for everyone to choose. High-quality electric toothbrushes are generally equipped with magnetic levitation motors, which have good running stability, stronger performance, low working noise, and a better brushing experience.
4.Pay attention to the quality of the brush head
There are many factors that affect the quality of the brush head, such as bristle hardness, roundness, planting rate, etc. Among them, the roundness of the bristles is a very important parameter, the top of the bristles with low roundness is very sharp and rough, and the user is likely to be scratched and worn teeth during use, so we should use an electric toothbrush with a roundness rate of more than 80%!
5.Buy an electric toothbrush that lasts a long time
It is recommended that you use an electric toothbrush with a battery life of more than 30 days to avoid the trouble of charging the electric toothbrush frequently, and also to prevent the accelerated aging of the battery caused by repeated battery charging and discharging.
6.The compatibility of electric toothbrushes should be strong enough
The oral environment of Chinese people is more complicated, so we should use products with good compatibility, and it is recommended that you use an electric toothbrush with a variety of brush heads to choose from, so that you can replace the brush head to deal with more situations. In addition, the most important thing is that the frequency range of the electric toothbrush is large and wide enough, so that it can be more adaptable in the face of different groups of people and dynamic oral care needs!
7.Preference is given to sonic electric toothbrushes
Mainstream electric toothbrushes can be divided into rotary and sonic according to the working principle, rotary electric toothbrushes have strong cleaning power, but are easy to hurt teeth, while sonic products have both strong cleaning power and high tooth protection, a wider range of cleaning, and more suitable for the oral environment of Chinese people.
8.The swept angle is best between 3-9 degrees
It is recommended that you choose an electric toothbrush with a sweeping angle between 3 and 9 degrees, if the sweeping angle is too large, it is likely to cause tooth damage, but it is not recommended to choose an electric toothbrush with a sweeping angle that is too small, and the cleaning performance will be poor.
5. Four reasons why you can't buy a low-cost electric toothbrush!
In addition to explaining to you what are the advantages and disadvantages of electric toothbrushes, I also shared with you 8 tips for buying high-quality products, I believe everyone can choose a high-quality electric toothbrush. But here I would like to remind you again that for some very low electric toothbrushes on the market, you must not buy them cheaply, because low-cost electric toothbrushes usually have the following disadvantages:
1. The bristles are rough。The bristles are either too hard or too soft, the roundness is low, and many have not been rounded, the tips of the bristles are very sharp, and the gums often bleed when brushing!
2. Inferior materials. Many low-cost electric toothbrushes use coreless motors, the vibration frequency is unstable, and the electric toothbrush is like a small electric drill rampaging in the mouth, and there are often tooth bleeding and toothache problems after use.
3. Poor battery。The distinctive feature of low-cost electric toothbrushes is that they have a short battery life and obvious power exhaustion, and after using them for a while, the vibration frequency of the electric toothbrush will gradually decrease, or even be completely unusable.
4. Short service life. The quality of inferior electric toothbrushes is not good, and the failure rate is very high, such as turning on in the middle of the night is very common, and it is broken in a week, and there are even charging **.
As long as you follow the eight tips summarized in the article to choose an electric toothbrush, instead of blindly following the products of the Internet celebrities, you can buy a high-quality electric toothbrush that suits you and has strong gum and tooth protection strength, so as to better maintain our oral health!