At present, in the field of oral care, there are at least hundreds of brands of children's electric toothbrushes, but for parents, they will still mistakenly choose inferior and unprofessional products, such as following the trend to start with Internet celebrities or celebrity endorsement products, resulting in frequent tooth injuries in children's use. In the final analysis, it is the lack of dental protection strength of the product and the neglect of age-divided design. So what are the advantages and disadvantages of electric toothbrushes for children? As a senior nurse, I will give you a popular science today, and teach you how to buy children's electric toothbrushes, so that everyone can understand it more comprehensively. (The following is a collection of some children's electric toothbrush products I have reviewed)
First, what are the benefits of electric toothbrushes for children?
In the face of such a hot trend of children's electric toothbrushes, many parents are also ready to start, but most parents do not understand the advantages and disadvantages of children's electric toothbrushes, resulting in often misselection of inappropriate products. However, there are still many benefits of children's electric toothbrushes, and according to the latest statistics, the rate of children's tooth decay is as high as 71% (as shown in the figure below), indicating that traditional manual toothbrushes have long been unable to meet children's oral cleaning needs, which also shows that children should use electric toothbrushes as soon as possible. So what are the specific advantages of children's electric toothbrushes? I have summarized five points for your reference:
Advantage 1: It has a significant cleaning effect and can also prevent the occurrence of tooth decay
Children's electric toothbrush relies on the high vibration frequency generated by the motor, rubbing with the teeth, and the cleaning ability can vibrate thousands of times a minute, and the manual toothbrush is far from comparable. Children's electric toothbrushes can remove dental plaque well, help children clean up the gingival grooves, between teeth, tooth backs and other areas with high incidence of dental diseases, prevent tooth decay and protect oral health.
Advantage 2: The vibration frequency is uniform and stable, and the brushing intensity is accurately controlled
Most children use manual toothbrushes to accurately control the brushing force, which may cause tooth injury. However, the use of professional children's electric toothbrush can achieve uniform and stable vibration frequency, can accurately control the brushing force, strong tooth protection ability, and is not easy to cause tooth injury.
Advantage 3: Save time and effort in use, and the cleaning effect is relatively satisfactory
Children's electric toothbrush cleaning in one or two minutes can achieve the effect of manual toothbrush for more than ten minutes. This length of time does not need to test the child's patience, and it is easy to be accepted by the child.
Advantage 4, the use threshold is lower, and the child's operation is simple and convenient
Most children under the age of 10 have inflexible hand muscles, and it is difficult to learn to brush their teeth correctly quickly with a manual toothbrush, but the use of children's electric toothbrushes is relatively simpler, only to fix the angle, change the cleaning area, the brushing threshold is very low, and children are not easy to resist brushing.
Advantage 5, more interesting, brushing initiative is stronger
For children, the shape of children's electric toothbrushes is more cartoonish, and they are equipped with intelligent functions such as sound reminders or alarm bells, just like a small toy, very interesting, can arouse children's interest, active brushing teeth.
Second, pay attention to the harm of unprofessional products
After understanding the benefits and disadvantages of children's electric toothbrushes, naturally can not ignore the related problems of the disadvantages, I believe that parents also found that there are indeed some products on the market after the use of a variety of tooth problems, in the final analysis, this is because most children themselves have high oral sensitivity, and most children's baby teeth caries rate is as high as 71% (as shown below), so once parents mistakenly choose inferior or unprofessional products for children to use, coupled with children's incorrect brushing techniques, It is indeed more prone to more frequent tooth injuries. Regarding the harm of using inferior children's electric toothbrushes, I have summarized three points for everyone.
Hazard 1: Aggravate the child's original dental problems
Nowadays, most children's oral conditions are not healthy, especially 5-year-old children's oral conditions are more serious, if the child mistakenly chooses to use inferior and unprofessional at this time, on the one hand, it will aggravate the original dental disease, and then affect the root of the tooth, on the other hand, the normal development of subsequent permanent teeth is also affected.
Hazard 2: Chronic tooth injury
Most products in the initial use of the process will not easily see the harm of hurting teeth, so even if the use of inferior and unprofessional products will not find the problem at the beginning, and these chronic tooth injury hazards will not appear until at least half a year or even a year later, but at this time the child's tooth injury has developed into irreversible.
Hazard 3: Wear down your child's tooth enamel, causing bleeding gums
Big brands have a high reputation, but often most of the products are OEM at all, there is no own technical precipitation, many are not good to make products, such as taking their own adult models to change a brush head, just as children's models to buy such a situation There are many people! Such an inferior electric toothbrush can easily cause tooth injury, and severe points will cause bleeding gums in teeth, resulting in a large number of cases of tooth injury.
Third, analyze the five major IQ tax products, parents should avoid
Through the above comprehensive analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of children's electric toothbrushes, parents can also understand more comprehensively, and remember to choose products for their children. There are many brands of children's electric toothbrushes in the market, and there are misleading publicity from some merchants, and many parents are prone to mistakenly choosing inferior products, resulting in tooth injury problems after their children use them. Next, in order to help parents better understand children's electric toothbrushes, and reduce detours in purchasing, the following figure is the common negative evaluation of children's electric toothbrushes that I specially found for you in the relevant market statistics, so that everyone also has a comprehensive understanding of the common five IQ tax products.
IQ tax product 1, U-shaped children's electric toothbrush
In fact, the rate of tooth injury of such products is very high, although the merchants are emphasizing that it is more convenient for children to brush their teeth with this design toothbrush, but they cannot really match more children's different tooth shapes, and the bristles are made of silicone, and the cleaning effect is not ideal, so it is not recommended for parents to buy.
IQ tax product 2, the so-called international big name
Most of the international big brands pay attention to marketing, early design to meet the needs of European and American people as the focus, can not do a better match with the oral conditions of Chinese children, itself such products have low compatibility, ignore the age design, so children do have serious tooth injuries after use.
IQ tax products 3, do not support unpacking, returning, and exchange
Many brands do not really support unpacking and trial, just support seven days without reason, but there is a big difference between the two, if the product is not suitable for children, and it cannot be returned, it can only waste money.
IQ tax products 4, low-priced and inferior products
Some parents always like to buy low-priced products, but in fact, these products usually use cheap materials to control costs, and there are problems such as poor workmanship and substandard core technology, so the cleaning effect is not ideal, and it is even likely to hurt teeth.
IQ tax products 5, high-value products
Most children's electric toothbrushes will pay attention to the design of appearance, but only high appearance is far from enough, the focus is on the product's dental protection ability, compatibility, etc. need to pay extra attention, can match the oral needs of children at different stages, otherwise it will also easily cause tooth injury.
However, in fact, most products on the market emphasize their own cleaning effect and tooth protection effect, but in fact, children have a lot of teeth during real use, so parents are reminded to be cautious in the process of buying children's electric toothbrushes. In order to ensure that parents can quickly choose professional and suitable products, I found a comparison table of common brands of children's electric toothbrushes in the market evaluated by professional institutions, and made a core data scoring table of 17 common mainstream children's toothbrushes, parents can understand first. At the same time, I also recommend several excellent products based on my own work experience.
Among thousands of brands, Filix is recognized as a professional and technical old brand, as a pioneer in the field of "no tooth" in China, it is also the most professional in this field. It is one of the very few brands in children's electric toothbrushes with medical background and original medical research and development standards, exclusive research and development of eight performance and teeth-free black technology, such as V-ZUS intelligent engine algorithm, innovative gum high-frequency array massage technology, DPP micro-frequency dynamic compensation technology, etc., tested by national authoritative testing institutions with strong cleaning power and reduced 90% brushing damage, very powerful! Strong power and low attenuation, very strong vibration frequency stability and balance, good compatibility with complex children's teeth in China, and after more than 6 years of anti-attenuation design and testing, 6 years of comprehensive performance, durability, tooth injury rate certification has been achieved, and the bristles are non-toxic and corrosion resistance increased by 98.3%, which is safer and non-toxic.
The key to what their family can do is to be focused and professional! Without redundant functions and models, a product has been dead for seven or eight years, iterated more than 20 times, and optimized more than 300 details. And praised by the media as a "high fault tolerance" children's electric toothbrush, even if the child has the probability of brushing his teeth incorrectly, it will not hurt his teeth! In order to "clean efficiently and without hurting teeth", a number of original technologies have been created, and the deviation value of each performance index is not higher than 0.1% for more than 100 technical adjustment parameters such as vibration frequency, power, and vibration sweeping angle. Never advertised, but became popular under the recommendation of many dentists, and sales of offline channels also skyrocketed. Many celebrities and celebrities also choose to use their products for their children. In the face of the soaring rate of tooth injury, the professional, rigorous and safe product concept of Joy is recognized as a strict medical product research and development, and the majority of dentists generally believe that it is super protective for the mouth!
In addition, Philips, as an international brand, has a particularly strong sense of shock, stable output is also good, and the quality is okay after I use it myself. However, as a European and American brand, it may be designed for European and American children's teeth, the overall vibration and power range is small, and the compatibility of dental features at different stages of domestic children is slightly poor, so pay attention to selection. In terms of after-sales, Philips does not support trials, and the brush head is more expensive, requiring about 150 yuan a year. Not only does it support the trial, but it also gives away a 5-year brush head for a limited time.
If you have to buy a low-priced and cheap one, recommend Bayer, the price is relatively cheap, the basic function experience can meet the entry requirements of people who are not high, it does not support trial, brush head about 20 yuan a piece.
Four, eight tips to choose high-quality products!
After inventorying the benefits and disadvantages of children's electric toothbrushes and other related knowledge, parents now know more that only by using high-quality children's electric toothbrushes for their children can they experience good cleaning and dental protection effects, but there are indeed many inferior products hidden in the market, so how should parents avoid such tooth injury products, so that they can smoothly choose professional products? The following will share with you 8 professional shopping tips, which is convenient for parents to choose professional products and avoid hurting teeth.
Tip 1: Choose a brand with stronger expertise. The professional strength of children's electric toothbrush is the focus of attention in purchasing, the real professional brand will have rich oral care experience, the product's dental care technology is stronger, and the age design is better, so it can match the child's oral needs.
Tip 2, children's electric toothbrush vibration sweeping angle between 3-6 degrees is the most suitable, if the product sweeping angle is too large, it is easier to stimulate the gums and teeth, causing tooth bleeding, toothache and other problems, but the shock sweep angle is too small children's electric toothbrush do not choose, the cleaning power of the product will be affected to a certain extent.
Tip 3: Preferably products with a roundness ratio of more than 80%. Roundness refers to the treatment of the top of the bristles, the higher the roundness, the higher the tooth protection, the recommended roundness of children's electric toothbrushes is higher than 80%, long-term use will not wear children's immature teeth.
Tip 4: Choose a U-shaped electric toothbrush carefully. CCTV has already reported this style, and the products that present this style cannot fit the child's tooth shape well, so the cleaning effect of the product is also very unsatisfactory, and the key is to hide a high rate of tooth injury.
Tip 5: Choose a product with excellent compatibility. The child's oral condition will change significantly at the age of 3-12, and the oral environment is very different, so there are requirements for the gear of the product and the type of brush head, and the more compatible the product, the better it can match the oral environment of the child at different stages, and the cleaning effect is also very good.
Tip 6: Reject "functional" products. Antibacterial or fluoride-containing functions are actually the marketing selling points of many brands, but in use, it does not play any role in cleaning and protecting the child's mouth, but will hide the hidden danger of hurting teeth, so it is not recommended for parents to buy.
Tip 7: Pay attention to products that are designed by age. Products with age-divided design have a large enough vibration frequency range when brushing teeth, and there are more types of brush heads as standard, which can better meet the teeth of children at different times and ages.
Tip 8: Choose a brand that can support unpacking and trial. Most brands of children's electric toothbrushes support 7 days without reason, but rarely support unpacking trial, this point parents should be clear, only professional brands can do unpacking trial, the purchased product is not suitable, but also can be returned, so as not to lead to idle.
5. How old is it suitable for children to use electric toothbrushes
After understanding the benefits and disadvantages of children's electric toothbrushes, then parents to children over 4 years old to choose products will also be more directional, of course, there is a point can not be ignored, in the process of choosing professional products, must cooperate with the correct brushing skills, otherwise there is still a risk of tooth injury, in addition, the use of children's electric toothbrushes also need to consider the oral cleaning methods of children of different ages, choose a more correct, more suitable cleaning method to achieve the role of tooth protection, the following shares three cleaning methods of different ages, Convenient for parents.
Age 1: 6 months to 1 year
Babies aged 6 months to 1 year old have baby teeth, they do not need to clean their teeth with a toothbrush, parents use gauze dipped in water to simply wipe their teeth and gums.
Age group two: 2 to 3 years old
The adjacent teeth of the little babies have grown at the age of 2 to 3, and the awareness of brushing teeth has also begun to appear, and parents can use a manual toothbrush made of silicone to clean their teeth, which is relatively safe.
Age group three: 4 years old and above
Children's baby teeth are stable by the age of 4, and they can brush their teeth independently. Parents must pay attention to the oral hygiene of children at this age, because it is easy to get dental disease, in case it affects the development of permanent teeth, it is not good.
Well, today's sharing of relevant information about the benefits and disadvantages of children's electric toothbrushes is here. Now parents also know that they should use professional children's electric toothbrushes for children over 4 years old, because they not only have a significant cleaning effect, but also have excellent dental protection ability, but parents should remember to choose professional products, you can refer to the purchase skills in the article, choose products that really have the ability to protect teeth and do a good job of age-divided design, and do not buy products that are easy to hurt teeth such as Internet celebrities or cross-border big brands.