We can see discussions about electric toothbrushes on major online platforms, of course, in addition to recognizing and praising the good cleaning effect of electric toothbrushes, there are also a lot of discussions such as "will electric toothbrushes hurt teeth" and "whether electric toothbrushes are IQ taxes", which shows that there are still a lot of controversies on electric toothbrushes. So will an electric toothbrush hurt your teeth? As a dental medicine student, I hope to answer your questions through this article, and share some ways to solve the problem of inferior electric toothbrushes hurting your teeth, so as to help you make better use of electric toothbrushes.
The picture above is an electric toothbrush that I have reviewed in detail).
1. Summary of the three major hazards of inferior electric toothbrushes!
Does brushing with an electric toothbrush hurt my teeth? Cases of electric toothbrushes hurting teeth abound in life, but everyone must understand that this kind of tooth damage problem will only occur when you use an unprofessional electric toothbrush or brush your teeth in the wrong way. Chinese people's oral health is not high, oral tolerance is very low, data show that the oral prevalence rate of adults is as high as more than 90%, and the symptoms of dental disease in the early and middle stages are often very hidden, people are difficult to find this, and do not think that they have dental disease, when buying an electric toothbrush, they will not consider their oral status, often blindly follow the trend to buy, it is easy to fall into the pit of unprofessional electric toothbrushes, thus causing tooth damage.
The harm of unprofessional electric toothbrushes is mainly reflected in the following three points:
Hazard 1If you use an unprofessional electric toothbrush, the tooth enamel will be damaged, and the gums will be easily scratched, and then there will be frequent bleeding gums, toothache and tooth acid.
Hazard 2Most people in our country have oral diseases, such as gingivitis, tooth decay, tooth sensitivity, periodontitis, etc., if you use an inferior electric toothbrush to brush your teeth, dental disease is easy to aggravate, and the oral environment will continue to deteriorate.
Hazard 3It usually takes a few months or a few years for users to realize that they have a tooth problem, but at this time, most users have begun to have irreparable oral problems such as gum recession and severe tooth sensitivity!
2. In-depth understanding of the four major chaos in the electric toothbrush industry!
Does brushing with an electric toothbrush hurt my teeth? Although it is a real event that a low-quality electric toothbrush hurts your teeth, everything has a cause, and as long as we understand the cause of tooth damage, we can take targeted measures to avoid it. So why does an inferior electric toothbrush hurt your teeth? Please take a look at the following data analysis chart of the causes of tooth injury with electric toothbrushes from authoritative dental forums, and it can be seen that teeth are generally injured because of the use of unprofessional electric toothbrushes. If you want to avoid buying these pitfalls, we have to deepen our understanding of the electric toothbrush industry, and I will introduce you to the four major chaos of the electric toothbrush industry, and I hope you will be vigilant when buying an electric toothbrush.
: Most brands have a low level of professionalism
Those Internet celebrity brands and cross-border brands have basically entered the industry in the past two years, they lack oral care experience, and they have no professional and technical precipitation, and they will not repeatedly adjust the gum and tooth protection experience, crowd compatibility matching, bristle roundness and other more than 100 core parameters of electric toothbrushes, electric toothbrushes are basically made by OEM processing, not only the brushing experience is poor, but also easy to hurt teeth.
: Product compatibility is generally poor
The oral environment of Chinese people is very complex, so we need to use an electric toothbrush with excellent compatibility to cope with a variety of changes in the oral environment.
First, the frequency range span is narrow, the number of gears is not much, the compatibility is generally poor, and the Chinese people may use it because the product can not adapt to the complex and changeable oral environment of the Chinese people and hurt the teeth.
: Compete with ** battles
In order to maintain low prices without affecting profits, businesses have excessively compressed the production cost of electric toothbrushes, and selected inferior components such as bristles and coreless motors without rounding treatment to make electric toothbrushes.
It is difficult to distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of three types of products: sweeping, rotating, and sonic type
The electric toothbrush on the market can be divided into three types, namely sweeping, rotating, and sonic type, among which the sweeping and rotating products generally have a high sweeping angle and a strong vibration frequency, such as Lai*, Oral*, etc., although the cleaning power is good, but there are higher requirements for the user's oral tolerance, because their vibration frequency is as high as 60,000 minutesThe sweeping angle is as high as 60 degrees or more (the doctor thinks that the reasonable scanning range of an electric toothbrush should be 3-9 degrees).The excessive vibration far exceeds the load capacity of the teeth and gums of the Chinese people, and it is easy to wear the enamel and damage the teeth in a chronic way! Therefore, doctors generally recommend that Chinese people use sonic electric toothbrushes, compared with the other two types of electric toothbrushes, sonic products can better take into account the tooth protection and cleaning power, but the premise is that everyone buys a professional electric toothbrush with scientific vibration frequency stability and sweeping angle adjustment.
3. The six benefits of brushing your teeth with an electric toothbrush
Does brushing with an electric toothbrush hurt my teeth? Earlier, we mainly talked about the problem of inferior electric toothbrushes hurting teeth, but don't forget that the value of electric toothbrushes is that it can fundamentally maintain everyone's oral health. In fact, using a professional and high-quality electric toothbrush can bring a lot of benefits to everyone. The oral health of Chinese people is generally very poor, and the dental health rate is less than 1%, the key is that everyone is still sick and does not know it, and will not care about it, and the result of letting it go is a small lesion and a major disease, resulting in a double loss of health and money. If you use an electric toothbrush, it can inhibit the development of the disease, so for Chinese people, the use of electric toothbrushes is imminent, and dentists generally recommend that you use it in time.
There are many benefits of electric toothbrushes, and I will briefly introduce a few points for you:
1: Excellent cleaning effect, can prevent and improve dental disease
Electric toothbrushes can clean more than manual toothbrushes, such as wisdom teeth, between teeth, gingival sulcus, root and interdental junctions and other blind areas that cannot be cleaned by manual toothbrushes, and can easily achieve efficient cleaning, remove plaque and food residues, reduce the breeding of bacteria, keep the mouth clean and hygienic, and greatly reduce the incidence of dental disease.
: It has the effect of massaging the gums
The electric toothbrush can achieve the effect of massaging the gums, which can effectively improve the blood circulation of the gum tissue, which is very suitable for orthodontic people, relieves the pressure on the gum soft tissue exerted by the braces, and better prevents gingivitis, gum recession and other problems.
: Precise control of brushing force
Manual toothbrush requires the user to control the strength of brushing teeth, the strength is difficult to achieve precise control, it is easy to have too much force to hurt the teeth or the force is too small to brush the situation is not clean, while the professional electric toothbrush can achieve a stable and uniform vibration frequency, the strength can be accurately controlled, to avoid the problem of too much force to hurt the teeth, the force of the brush is not clean.
: It is very time-saving and labor-saving
A manual toothbrush needs at least 10 minutes to clean the teeth in place, and the cleaning efficiency is relatively low, while using an electric toothbrush only takes two or three minutes to achieve a better cleaning effect, which is very time-saving and labor-saving.
: It can have the effect of whitening teeth
Professional and high-quality electric toothbrushes can gradually fade stubborn stains on the surface of teeth, such as tea stains, coffee stains, smoke stains and other stubborn stains are gradually brushed clean, inhibiting the formation of dental calculus, and making teeth whiter.
: Keep your breath fresh
The electric toothbrush can completely remove plaque and food debris in the mouth, avoid the occurrence of bad breath from the source, and keep the breath fresh for a long time. However, manual toothbrushes have a large number of cleaning blind spots, and unclean food residues and plaque remain in the blind spots in the mouth, which is prone to bad breath after a long time.
4. Avoid teeth being damaged! Master the eight-** purchase method
Does brushing with an electric toothbrush hurt my teeth? Seeing this, I believe you should realize that the key to whether an electric toothbrush will harm your teeth lies in the quality of the electric toothbrush you buy! Only by buying a professional and high-quality electric toothbrush can the oral cavity really benefit from it. So how to choose a high-quality electric toothbrush? Here are eight ways to buy electric toothbrushes, you can refer to the selection.
Method:Choose a style with a certain endurance
You'd better choose an electric toothbrush with a battery life of more than 30 days, if the battery life of the electric toothbrush is too short, the number of charging times will be very frequent, not only the user will feel troublesome, repeated charging is also easy to accelerate the loss of battery life!
Method:Be sure to choose a brand with a high degree of professionalism
For more than 100 parameters that affect the core performance of electric toothbrushes, such as the deviation value of the sweeping angle, the vibration frequency, the roundness of the bristles, etc., only professional electric toothbrush brands are willing to spend energy and time to adjust and optimize it repeatedly and repeatedly, and the tooth injury rate is more than 3 times lower than that of those unprofessional Internet celebrities!
Method:After-sales service is very important
It is best to choose a suitable electric toothbrush brand that can be unpacked, tried and replaced! Like the 7-day trial service is very easy to use, you can first try whether the product is suitable for yourself and then decide whether to stay, if you feel that the product is not easy to use, you can also return and exchange in time, the cost of trial and error is relatively low.
Method:Distinguish the difference between the rotation sonic wave and the sweeping type
The mainstream electric toothbrushes on the market can be divided into three categories according to their different working principles, namely rotary type, sweeping and vibration integrated type, and sonic type. Among them, the cleaning power of sweeping and rotating electric toothbrushes is not bad, but the vibration is too strongThe sweeping angle is up to 60° (compared to the 3-9° recommended by the dentist for electric toothbrushes).When brushing teeth, it is easy to wear teeth and scratch gums, which 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, are not easy to hurt teeth, low noise, and can bring you a better brushing experience.
Method:, highly recommend magnetic levitation motor
As the core component of the electric toothbrush, the motor mainly has two types: coreless motor and magnetic levitation motor, in contrast, it is recommended that you prefer products equipped with magnetic levitation motors, this kind of motor has stronger performance, stable operation, low noise, and good brushing experience, while coreless motors have low cost, poor performance, and poor frequency stability.
Method:The quality of the brush head should be good enough
Factors such as the roundness of the brush head size, size, bristle hardness and other factors will affect the quality of the brush head, for example, the bristle roundness of the electric toothbrush is the place where we should focus on the investigation, and the Chinese people should use an electric toothbrush with a bristle roundness rate of more than 80%, and the top of the bristles with a low roundness rate is too rough and sharp, which is easy to scratch the gums and wear the teeth.
Method: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, so that products with good compatibility can easily cope with various changes in the oral environment. I take the types of brush heads as an example, the more types of brush heads, the better, and electric toothbrushes with good compatibility generally have different types of brush heads such as cleaning brush heads, tooth guard brush heads, and orthodontic brush heads.
Method:The sweeping angle is best between three and nine degrees
If the sweeping angle is too large, it is easy to overstimulate the gums and teeth, causing problems such as gum bleeding, toothache and tooth acid, but do not choose an electric toothbrush with a sweeping angle that is too small, and the cleaning power is easy to be pulled down.
After mastering the purchase method of electric toothbrushes, don't take it lightly, now many businesses will lie that their electric toothbrushes protect gums and teeth, and most of them are tooth-hurting products. In order to allow you to choose an electric toothbrush with good cleaning power and gum and tooth protection, I found the statistics of electric toothbrush cleaning power and wear on a professional dental forum, and shared a few easy-to-use products with you based on my own evaluation experience.
Among the large number of electric toothbrush brands reviewed in the past,As a recognized pioneer in the field of "non-tooth damage" in China, FILIX has been deeply engaged in the medical research and development of "dental anti-aging" for ten years, which is undoubtedly the best comprehensive performance and professional adjustment in this field. The biggest feature is that it focuses on "surgical" precise cleaning, which does not hurt teeth! The original eight non-tooth-harming, cleaning, anti-aging black technologies, the tooth injury rate is reduced to 89%! The cleaning residue rate is less than 2%, and it has been certified by the European Union! 100% compatible with 83 types of oral environments, which is very powerful. The power is very strong, but the attenuation is very low, and the vibration frequency stability is extremely high, and it is the first brand in the industry to offer orthodontic brush heads. The reason why we can achieve super comprehensive performance is that we are professional! There are no redundant functions, no large number of models, just a product for several years, iteratively upgraded more than 20 versions! Optimize 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!
Relying on ten years of practical experience in "dental anti-aging", the Huile team has made high-precision black technology that does not hurt teeth, such as dual-structure magnetic levitation motors and innovative gingival high-frequency array massage technology, so that the accuracy and error rate of vibration frequency and sweeping angle are not higher than 0 within 6 years03%。Combined with rich experience in "tooth anti-attenuation" medical technology, oral microcirculation is increased by 93%, reducing the incidence of gingivitis and periodontitis and alleviating symptoms. Huile is not the kind of brand that chases the trend, giving people a down-to-earth, pragmatic, rigorous and scientific feeling, never advertising, nor engaging in live broadcastingPurely relying on the word-of-mouth of dentists, it is praised as a treasure brand with the best reputation and quality by the authority. Because the brush is clean and does not hurt teeth, many celebrities and celebrities use it, and dentists recognize that it is very protective of teeth!
Also Philips is ok,The brand is relatively famous, the workmanship quality is OK, and the cleaning power is OK. If you pursue cost-effectiveness,Among the low-priced products, you can take a look at Bayer and Shuke,The basic configuration parameters and functions are quite passable, and the brush head is about 20 yuan.
In terms of after-sales, Philips does not support trials, and the brush head costs about 200 yuan per year. Huile not only supports unpacking and trial, but also gives away a 5-year brush head for a limited time.
Fifth, the correct way to brush teeth with an electric toothbrush
Does brushing with an electric toothbrush hurt my teeth? Only inferior products will have hidden dangers of tooth damage, so through the electric toothbrush purchase knowledge shared above, you can buy an electric toothbrush that does not hurt your teeth. But I also want to remind you that the wrong way of brushing can also cause tooth injury, so you also need to learn how to use an electric toothbrush to achieve a more comprehensive and thorough cleaning effect.
1.Aim the toothbrush at the point where the teeth and gums meet, and place the bristles at a 45° angle along the gum line, the bristles should be touching the tooth surface and gums.
2.Brush the toothbrush with a horizontal viver toothbrush in a set of 2-3 teeth, then move the toothbrush to the next set of 2-3 teeth and repeat.
3.Place the toothbrush against the occlusal surface of the wisdom tooth area of the back teeth and make gentle back-and-forth brushing.
4.Behind the upper and lower front teeth, tilt the toothbrush vertically and use the front half of the brush head to brush up and down.
Does brushing with an electric toothbrush hurt my teeth? The above content is all the electric toothbrush knowledge that I want to give you today. In the article, it not only introduces the harm of inferior electric toothbrushes, but also reveals the four major chaos of the electric toothbrush industry, so that you can avoid inferior products, and more importantly, teach you practical ways to buy electric toothbrushes. I hope that everyone can understand and apply the knowledge talked about today, and they can buy high-quality electric toothbrushes with strong professional and technical strength and good gum and tooth protection experience, so that electric toothbrushes can truly play their role in maintaining oral health.