As a professional oral care tool, the reasonable use of electric toothbrushes can help us better clean the oral cavity and prevent and improve dental diseases, but as an oral health blogger, I found that many friends are not very satisfied with electric toothbrushes, saying that they have tooth problems not long after buying and using electric toothbrushes, such as bleeding gums, sore teeth, etc. Is there any harm in brushing your teeth with an electric toothbrush? Today I will talk to you about this problem, and popularize the knowledge of electric toothbrushes, I hope you can read this article carefully.
(The picture below is an electric toothbrush I have used)
1. Reveal the three major hazards of inferior electric toothbrushes!
Although many businesses advertise that electric toothbrushes are beneficial and harmless, to be honest, low-quality electric toothbrushes do have the possibility of hurting teeth. In particular, the oral health of the Chinese people is poor, the national oral prevalence rate is as high as 97.6% (as shown in the figure below), the oral tolerance is low, and the symptoms of dental disease in the early and middle stages are not obvious itching, it is easy for people to mistakenly think that their oral health, but in fact, it is not the case, and then mistakenly use an unprofessional electric toothbrush, it is inevitable that there will be a problem of tooth damage!
The common hazards of unprofessional electric toothbrushes are as follows:
危害1、磨损牙齿、划伤牙龈
Inferior electric toothbrushes have rough and sharp bristles and unstable vibration frequency, which will inevitably hurt teeth and gums, resulting in tooth sensitivity, toothache, gum bleeding and other problems.
Hazard 2, aggravate the underlying dental disease
Chinese people generally have dental diseases such as tooth sensitivity, gingivitis, periodontitis, etc., if you use an unprofessional electric toothbrush to clean the mouth when you suffer from dental disease, dental disease is easy to aggravate.
Hazard 3, chronic tooth injury
Long-term use of unprofessional electric toothbrush brushing will also cause the problem of chronic tooth injury, this harm is very hidden, users may have been a few months or even half a year when they find themselves injured teeth, at this time most of them have begun to appear gum recession, loose teeth and other serious oral health problems!
Second, the five major routines of electric toothbrush merchants are doxxing, be careful of the move!
Is there any harm to brushing teeth with electric toothbrushes? Many people have been harmed by tooth damage after using inferior electric toothbrushes, but electric toothbrushes were originally designed for our oral health, why do they become tooth damage weapons now? In response to this problem, I found a statistical chart of the causes of tooth injury of electric toothbrushes released by professional institutions, according to the data in the figure, we can find that improper purchase of electric toothbrushes is the root cause of tooth injury. And everyone can't blame everyone for making mistakes, the main reason is that there are too many business routines, so that everyone has a wrong judgment when buying an electric toothbrush. In order to avoid this situation, I will give you a science popularization of the five common routines in the electric toothbrush industry, and I hope you will be more careful.
1. Use celebrities and Internet celebrities to attract consumers
The Internet celebrity brands and cross-border brands in the electric toothbrush industry have basically entered the industry in the past two years, they have little oral care experience, and they do not have sufficient professional and technical strength to optimize and upgrade the core parameters of the electric toothbrush such as gum and tooth protection experience, crowd compatibility matching, power intensity, etc., and businesses rely on celebrity endorsements, Internet celebrities bring goods and other ways to attract consumers, but the actual evaluation performance of the product is very bad, not to mention the poor cleaning power, and it is easy to cause tooth problems.
2. Buy qualifications and certificates to package products
In order to make the electric toothbrush look more professional, they will spend money to buy some so-called certificates and qualifications to package the electric toothbrush, these names seem to be very authoritative, but in fact, you can buy it with money, so you must be cautious about this kind of electric toothbrush with too many titles!
3. Consumables trap
Low-cost electric toothbrushes generally use this routine, although the price of the product is very cheap, but the quality is also seriously reduced, merchants generally choose unrounded plastic bristles, coreless motors and other components to process electric toothbrushes, electric toothbrushes have a very high rate of tooth injury. There are also some electric toothbrushes, although the price of the host is set very cheap, but the price of the replacement brush head is very expensive, and the merchant can earn enough money by selling the brush head, like many Internet celebrities who use the money to sell the brush head every year It costs two or three hundred yuan, which is really tricky.
4. Swipe the list and brush the list
Many electric toothbrush brands will brush the list through Internet celebrities with low-cost goods, advertisements and other methods, so that the data of electric toothbrushes becomes very good-looking, and they are among the best on various lists, but the measured performance of this kind of electric toothbrushes is far from being as good as it seems on the data.
5. Rotary/sonic / sweeping vibration type optimal hazard popularization
Electric toothbrushes can be divided into three categories: rotary, sweeping and sonic according to the different working principles, and the cleaning power of rotary and sweeping products is strong, but the vibration is generally too high, even reaching more than 60,000 times / min, and the sweeping angle is too large, reaching more than 60 degrees, you must know that the dentist thinks that the reasonable sweeping range is 3-9 °, which is easy to cause them to over-damage the teeth and gums during cleaning, and this cleaning intensity is only suitable for European and American people with very high oral tolerance. The sonic electric toothbrush is relatively better for the protection of gums and teeth, and the cleaning power is also good, which is more suitable for the oral environment of the Chinese people, and it is also the type of electric toothbrush recommended by dentists.
3. How to avoid harm? Teach you eight ways to buy electric toothbrushes!
Is there any harm in brushing teeth with electric toothbrushes? There are many black-hearted merchants in the current electric toothbrush market who focus on playing routines, but do not care to make products, resulting in the proliferation of inferior products. At this time, you need to carefully buy electric toothbrushes to ensure that you can buy high-quality products, so I have summarized eight electric toothbrush purchase methods, which can help you eliminate a large number of pitfalls and choose high-quality electric toothbrushes.
Method 1: Choose a brand with strong professional and technical strength
In the more than 100 parameters that affect the core performance of electric toothbrushes, such as the balanced stability of the vibration frequency, the deviation value of the sweeping angle, the roundness of the bristles, etc., only professional electric toothbrush brands are willing to spend a lot of time and energy on repeated adjustment and optimization, and the tooth injury rate of electric toothbrushes is more than three times lower than that of those unprofessional Internet celebrities!
Method 2: Buy a brand with after-sales service in place
It is recommended that you choose an electric toothbrush brand that supports a 7-day trial and replaces the brush head at the right price!Like the 7-day trial service, it can bring great convenience to everyone, so that you can try the electric toothbrush first and then judge whether to stay, if you feel that the electric toothbrush is not suitable for you, there is no excessive financial burden when returning and exchanging goods.
Method 3: Choose an electric toothbrush that lasts a long time
The battery life of an electric toothbrush is best more than 30 days, if you buy an electric toothbrush with a lot of battery life, we have to charge it frequently, not to mention the trouble, it is easy to accelerate the loss of battery life!
Method 4: Distinguish the difference between rotation/sonic wave/sweeping
According to the different working principles, the types of electric toothbrushes can be divided into three types: rotary type, sweeping and vibration integrated type, and sonic type. The cleaning power of sweeping and rotating products is not bad, but the vibration is too strong, and the sweeping angle even exceeds 60 ° (the dentist recommends that the sweeping range is 3-9 °), which 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, less damage to teeth and gums, low working noise, and can bring you a better brushing experience, which is recognized as the most suitable style for Chinese people.
Method 5: Pay attention to the quality of the brush head
Factors such as the size of the brush head, the roundness of the brush head, and the hardness of the bristles will all affect the quality of the brush head. For example, the roundness of the bristles is a very important parameter, everyone buys an electric toothbrush with a roundness rate of more than 80%, the tip of the bristles with a low roundness is very rough and sharp, and it is easy to scratch the gums and wear the teeth.
Method 6: It is best to choose a magnetic levitation motor
Coreless motor and magnetic levitation motor are the two types of electric toothbrush motors, it is recommended that you start with an electric toothbrush equipped with a magnetic levitation motor, it has excellent performance, stable operation, low working noise, and can bring you a more outstanding brushing experience, while the coreless motor has poor performance, poor stability, low and high vibration frequency, and high risk of tooth injury, so it is not recommended for everyone to choose.
Method 7: The sweeping angle should be appropriate
The sweeping angle of the electric toothbrush is between 3-9 degrees is the most suitable, if the sweeping angle of the electric toothbrush is too large, it will overstimulate the gums and teeth when used, causing problems such as bleeding gums, toothache and toothache, but do not choose the style with the sweeping angle too small, and the cleaning power is easy to be pulled down.
Method 8: 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, which have better compatibility and can cope with various changes in the oral environment. For example, the more types of brush heads, the more abundant 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.
After reading the above electric toothbrush purchase method, everyone should have a certain understanding of the purchase of electric toothbrushes, but I also want to remind you that the electric toothbrush brands on the market now claim that their products can protect gums and teeth, in fact, most of them are tooth pit goods, many consumers do not distinguish who is the real brand of gum and tooth protection, and as a result, they are injured by thunder. In order to help you buy high-quality electric toothbrushes for gum and mouth protection, I specially found a list of different electric toothbrushes for cleaning power and wear on authoritative websites, from which we can find good products for real dental care:
Among the large number of electric toothbrush brands evaluated in the past, the professional old brand Filix, as recognized as the pioneer of the domestic "tooth-free" field, is undoubtedly the best comprehensive performance and professional adjustment in this field, and it is also the main model that I have used for the longest time, it is a rare electric toothbrush with a medical background and rigorous medical research and development standards, and it is also the only brand that has been certified by the European Union, the United States and other countries! The cleaning residue rate is less than 2%, the cleaning power is top-notch and reduces the damage by 89%, and it is rare to obtain EU certification! The power is very strong, but the attenuation degree is very low, and the vibration frequency stability is extremely high! It is the first brand in the industry to provide orthodontic brush heads, and the tooth compatibility of complex people in China is great! The reason why it can achieve super comprehensive performance is to focus! No redundant functions, no large number of models, just a product for several years, iterative upgrade of 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-resistant bristles have been increased by 98.3%, making it safer and non-toxic!
It is the first to create eight "high-performance non-tooth" black technologies, such as approved vibration frequency technology, innovative gingival high-frequency array massage technology, DPP micro-frequency dynamic compensation technology, etc., and tune and optimize more than 100 items such as long-term attenuation, deviation value and vibration scanning angle of vibration frequency, so as to ensure that the deviation value of various performance indicators for more than 6 years is not higher than 0.1%. Compared with many brands to fight for beauty and low price, Huile has been recognized for its rigorous medical research and development!
In addition, Philips is OK, the brand is relatively famous, the workmanship quality is OK, and the cleaning power is OK. If you pursue cost-effective, you can take a look at Bayer and Shuke among low-priced products, 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.
Fourth, the six benefits of using an electric toothbrush are summarized!
Although inferior electric toothbrushes have the harm of hurting teeth, we can effectively distinguish the advantages and disadvantages of electric toothbrushes through the above purchase methods, so as to avoid their harm, and professional electric toothbrushes can bring a variety of benefits to our oral health. At present, the oral problems of Chinese people are very common, and the dental health rate is even less than 1%, and traditional toothbrushing tools are difficult to meet the oral care needs of Chinese people, so professional dentists believe that Chinese people should use electric toothbrushes.
The benefits of using an electric toothbrush are as follows:
Benefit 1: Better cleaning power, can prevent and improve dental disease
Electric toothbrushes have a very powerful cleaning power, and can easily handle some blind spots and dead corners that cannot be handled by manual toothbrushes, such as cavities, tooth gaps, tooth roots and other areas with a high incidence of dental disease, helping you to comprehensively remove plaque and food residues in the mouth, and prevent and improve dental diseases.
Benefit 2: Can massage the gums
The electric toothbrush is very suitable for orthodontic people, it can massage the gums, can promote the blood circulation of the gums, improve the pressure on the soft tissues of the gums exerted by the braces, and help everyone better prevent gum recession and other problems.
Benefit 3: More precise control of brushing intensity
Manual toothbrushes require users to subjectively operate the strength and angle of brushing, so there are often cases where too much force hurts the teeth or the force is too small to brush clean, while professional and high-quality electric toothbrushes have a stable and uniform vibration frequency, and the strength can be accurately controlled, so as to avoid problems such as excessive force and tooth damage, and small force brushes are not clean.
Benefit 4: It saves time and effort to use
The cleaning efficiency of manual toothbrushes is relatively low, and it takes more than 10 minutes to clean the teeth in place, while the same cleaning effect, electric toothbrushes can be done in only two or three minutes, saving time and effort.
Benefit 5: It can help everyone whiten their teeth
The electric toothbrush can gradually clean the stubborn stains deposited on the surface of the teeth, such as tea stains, coffee stains, smoke stains and other stubborn stains, and can also reduce the formation of dental calculus, so as to achieve the effect of teeth whitening.
Benefit 6: Fresh breath
Electric toothbrushes do not have blind spots, which can help you thoroughly brush off plaque and food residues in your mouth, avoid the appearance of bad breath from the root, and maintain a long-term fresh breath. However, manual toothbrushes have many dead corners, and food residues and plaque that are not cleaned in place remain in the blind spots in the mouth, making it difficult to maintain fresh breath for a long time.
Is there any harm to brushing teeth with electric toothbrushes? This is the end of this question, although inferior electric toothbrushes do have the harm of hurting teeth, but as long as you choose to use professional electric toothbrushes with strong gum and tooth protection capabilities, it is very safe, and it can also bring many benefits to oral health. And those Internet celebrity brands, cross-border big brands of electric toothbrushes generally have a high rate of tooth injury, so don't buy impulsively to avoid damage to your teeth!