Amelia Grant

You're still deciding if you should buy an electric toothbrush or not, but a friend tries to talk you out of it. Saying that the promised wow effect is just an advertising ploy. Let’s take a look if there any benefits from them or not? According to experts, an electric toothbrush can greatly facilitate dental care and even reduce the risk of oral disease. 

Most people do not follow the recommendations of doctors to brush their teeth with sweeping movements for two minutes and often pay little attention to oral hygiene. Meanwhile, the electric brush itself controls the cleaning time, removing several times more plaque, including in hard-to-reach places, as compared with a manual brush.

So, if there are so many benefits, why so many people choose not to buy an electric toothbrush? Because there are many baseless myths in our society. That’s why today we want to destroy them and help you to understand where the truth is.

Common Myths About Electric Toothbrushes

Myth 1: A regular toothbrush cleans as good as an electric one

Brushing your teeth seems to be simple, but in fact, in order for it to bring results, several factors must be taken into account. Of course, if you can control the force of pressing the brush on the teeth and carefully clean each one, continue to use the hand brush. 

Instead of brushing their teeth with sweeping movements, many do it from side to side. Electric toothbrushes provide a more uniform pressure on the surface of the teeth and gums, which reduces the risk of abrasion of enamel, and the built-in timer helps to keep the required two minutes.

Myth 2: Electric toothbrushes are not suitable for those who have sensitive teeth

You will be surprised, but often such problems are associated with an improper cleaning technique. Making movements from side to side, you can easily injure the gums, while most of the plaque along the gum line is not cleaned properly. 

To prevent bleeding of the gums and unpleasant sensations, many modern brushes have special modes for delicate cleansing and nozzles with ultra-soft bristles arranged in a special way for the most gentle care. At the same time, nozzles can be easily changed depending on individual preferences.

Myth 3: All electric brushes clean the same

You will be surprised, but there are several types of electric brushes: simple, sonic and ultrasonic. The first type brushes the teeth with fast rotational movements of the nozzle. Sonic - work not only due to mechanical effects but also due to additional sound vibrations, which weaken the adhesion of plaque to the surface of the teeth. Brushes with this technology can restore the natural whiteness of teeth in a week. 

Ultrasonic brushes are very effective (frequency of bristle oscillations - more than 20,000 Hz) but they will have to be rejected by those who have fillings and crowns.

Myth 4: Electric brushes do not suit children

Children require a special approach to everything. Knowing this, manufacturers create attachments with special ultra-soft bristles that do not injure delicate children's enamel and gums. By the way, the sound of a working brush can reduce the fear of a drill and even promote a child's interest in oral hygiene.

In the latter, manufacturers have particularly succeeded: they created brushes that synchronize with learning interactive applications for smartphones and tablets. And although the safety of children's brushes is clinically confirmed, kids orthodontists recommend to use them starting from the age of 3 years.

Myth 5: Only one person can use one electric toothbrush

Of course, it is not so! One body is suitable for different nozzles that can be changed depending on the individual preferences of all "users". For example, the Philips Sonicare can use seven different nozzles, which differ in rigidity: from ultra soft to medium. You can buy one body for the whole family with different nozzles.