The Oral-B 3000 electric toothbrush has a longer battery life of 14 days but only features three brushing modes. 11 At about half the cost of the 7000 model, the 3000 electric toothbrush offers similar cleaning performance and a pressure sensor.

There is a Professional Guidance feature allows you and your dental professional to work together. Actually, share and discuss improvement areas and have your dentist actually program into the app extra brushing time and adjustments to your cleaning modes. It offers a blend of features and functions that benefit us as users at a price that most will find affordable.

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Cleverly, the brush will too automatically reduce the head speed and stop the pulsation until the pressure is reduced. From a young age, you have likely been encouraged to brush your teeth twice a day for 2 minutes. If you haven’t then you need to think about doing this, and the Smart 7 7000 can help you. If you can spot a good deal on it, the iO6 is a great brush. But bear in mind that if you opt for this one over the iO7 or above, you won’t get fast charging. Over time you will learn how much pressure you need to apply and it will essentially become redundant for most within a few month’s.

If using the app at the same time as brushing, the screen on the app will also illuminate red and tell you to reduce the pressure should you apply too much to the teeth. Another slight difference is the 9000’s lovely travel case has a clip built into the lid that holds a smartphone, for using the app when travelling. It has three brushing modes, for daily cleaning, whitening and gentle care, a pressure sensor, brushing timer (that alerts you via a stutter in the brush’s vibrations) and the fun light ring that’ll cycle through its colours when you complete a two-minute brushing session. All system components (e.g., toothbrush handle, charger, power cord, SmartGuide). You do not need to include accessories like the brush heads or refill stand.A sensitive brush head that to be used with the sensitive cleaning mode for brushing sensitive teeth and gums As the name implies this mode is more gentle. It is designed to offer a softer, but thorough clean. It helps those with sore or inflamed gums, but reducing the number of movements in the brush head, making for a more comfortable brushing experience, until the sensitivity has gone or reduced. This mode is great if you are suffering from gum disease. Yet, due to a quirk in the Oral-B naming convention, the Smart 1500 is actually our toothbrush of choice. They all have a bight red/green pressure sensor, a vibration-based brushing timer and a choice of cleaning modes. It is also worth noting, whilst it is perfectly possible to share a brush handle, the handle can not differentiate between 2 users, so your data synced to the app will be wrong. There is a way around this, but it is a bit of a fudge.

On the rear of the handle rather than raised plastic ridges, the 3000 has a more subtle dimpled surface. Smart is a nice and cheaper option if you are looking to buy toothbrushes for couples. However, with this option, you not only lose the brush head storage unit but also one brush head. You just get 2 CrossAction brush heads compared to the three that comes with 5000 Smart. Which is Better, Oral B Smart 4, 5, 6 or 7? In the lower third of this front panel is a Bluetooth icon, a battery icon made up of 3 bars and then finally the Oral-B and Braun logos. The display incorporated into the handle doesn’t indicate which mode you’re in. You have to use the Oral-B app or the Smart Guide device to determine which mode you’re in.Compared to the Oral B Smart 4000 that has no travel case included, this brush, on the other hand, comes with a standard plastic travel case. The case can hold one toothbrush and 2 brush heads. Charging Station It is also fine to rinse off under a tap without issue. Don’t go submerging the brush though. It is on the front of the brush where most of the action happens with the power button, brushing modes and more.