Children's electric toothbrush is a very popular oral care product, its advantages are also vigorously promoted by many businesses, many parents feel that children's electric toothbrush is good to start to use for children, but do not notice its harm, in fact, compared to the advantages, the harm of children's long-term use of electric toothbrushes needs to be more vigilant. So today, a nurse will come to talk to you about the product of children's electric toothbrush, and I will also explain the way to avoid the harm of children's electric toothbrush, hoping to help children better maintain their oral health.
(The picture above is a part of my recent review of a children's electric toothbrush)
1. Dig deep into the three major hazards of children's electric toothbrushes
Before talking about the harm of children's long-term use of electric toothbrushes, I will first introduce to you the oral health quality of children in the mainland, the current oral health of children is relatively low, and the caries rate of children has been as high as 71% (as shown in the figure below), plus the child's own oral cavity is more sensitive, if parents at this time give their children the wrong choice of inferior and unprofessional products, or use the wrong way of brushing, whether the child uses an electric toothbrush or a manual toothbrush, it may cause damage to the teeth. Therefore, parents should be more careful to choose products for their children to use, what are the hazards of children's electric toothbrushes during use?
Hazard 1: Aggravate the underlying dental disease
Many children already suffer from dental disease, and once an inferior electric toothbrush is used, it is easy to directly aggravate the original dental problem, resulting in the continuous deterioration of the child's oral environment.
Hazard 2: Brings chronic tooth damage
Long-term use of low-quality electric toothbrushes for children can also cause chronic tooth damage, which usually takes months or years to show obvious symptoms, and is often ignored by everyone, but once this damage occurs, it is irreversible.
Hazard 3: Cause tooth bleeding, toothache and other problems
Inferior children's electric toothbrushes generally have problems such as uneven vibration frequency and lack of age-specific design, and children are prone to toothache, tooth enamel wear, and gum bleeding after using such children's electric toothbrushes.
Second, be careful of the six major chaos in the children's electric toothbrush industry!
Most of the harm caused by children's long-term use of electric toothbrushes is due to improper product selection, and I have also verified this from the negative evaluation chart of children's electric toothbrushes summarized by authoritative media. The reason why we often have frequent problems in the purchase of children's electric toothbrushes is inseparable from the overall environment of the industry.
Industry chaos 1: Promote functional bristles to use
Many parents must have seen functional propaganda such as bristles containing fluoride to prevent tooth decay and bristles containing bamboo charcoal to remove oral odor.
Industry chaos 2: Promote U-shaped brushing without threshold
In fact, these products are impossible to match the tooth shape of each child, there are many hidden dangers of tooth injury, and there is no swing or vibration frequency design, there will be no cleaning effect.
Industry chaos 3: low-cost products are cost-effective
In fact, the materials used in these products are very cheap, not only can not be brushed cleanly, but also have a great rate of tooth damage!
Industry chaos 4: The product does not support trial
Don't look at some products that say that there is no reason for seven days, as long as the order is unpacked, it will not be returned, or you need to pay for the use of the brush head, these are hidden conditions, and the risk is all on the consumer himself!
Industry chaos 5: There are high-value products
High appearance will indeed attract children's attention, but what is the use of just having good looks? Many high-value products cannot keep up with the key dental protection and safety performance.
Industry chaos 6: high-popularity Internet celebrity products
Many Internet celebrity brands are caught fire by live broadcasts, what needs to be snapped up, limited prices, etc., creating the illusion that many children are using it, but in fact, the professionalism is extremely poor, and the rate of tooth injury is very high, so parents should judge rationally.
3. Children in category 3 should not use electric toothbrushes
In addition to the harm of children's electric toothbrushes due to the poor quality of children's electric toothbrushes, the blind use of children's electric toothbrushes will also be harmful, so who is not suitable for children's electric toothbrushes?
1. Children under 4 years old
Children under the age of 4 have delicate teeth and gums, so it is recommended that parents pay attention to choosing a manual toothbrush with soft bristles to clean their children, so as to complete the cleaning work while better protecting the oral cavity from injury. Using a children's electric toothbrush too early can easily hurt your teeth.
2. Children with slow oral development
The state of each child's oral cavity is different, for children with slow tooth development, it is not recommended to use children's electric toothbrushes, because children's mouths are very immature, and the use of electric toothbrushes is easy to hurt teeth, parents must choose according to their children's conditions.
3. Children with severe dental caries
Severe caries is to have reached the deep dentin layer, generally manifested as a large and deep cavity, or the entrance is small and deep with a more extensive destruction, children with severe caries should seek medical attention in time, after obtaining the doctor's permission, you can use children's electric toothbrushes, if you do not listen to the doctor's words rashly use, it will aggravate the child's dental problems.
Fourth, why use children's electric toothbrushes? 5 benefits of popular science
The harm of children's long-term use of electric toothbrushes does exist, so why do many dentists still recommend children over 4 years old to use children's electric toothbrushes? The condition of children's dentice in mainland China is generally poor, and data show that more than 70% of children have dental disease, and if you do not use children's electric toothbrushes to strengthen care, this situation will continue to worsen, so dentists believe that it is necessary for children over 4 years old to use children's electric toothbrushes to improve the quality of oral cleaning and maintain oral health. There are many benefits of children's electric toothbrushes, and here are 5 of them:
Advantage 1: The cleaning effect is good, which can effectively prevent tooth decay
Children's electric toothbrushes are far more powerful than manual toothbrushes, and can clean the tooth gaps, gingival sulcus, backs of teeth and other high-incidence areas of dental disease that cannot be handled by manual toothbrushes, completely remove plaque in the mouth, and help children prevent tooth decay and other oral problems.
Advantage 2: The threshold for use is low, and the operation for children is simpler
The use of manual toothbrushes requires children to control their brushing strength, but most children under the age of 10 cannot flexibly control the intensity and do not have much patience, so it is actually difficult to complete the brushing behavior for ten minutes. The children's electric toothbrush not only has a low threshold for use, but also is simple to operate, so children can get started faster.
Benefit 3: Save time and effort
Manual toothbrushes take at least ten minutes to achieve the desired cleaning effect, but most children do not have much patience, so the cleaning effect is difficult to achieve, while children's electric toothbrushes only need 2-3 minutes to help children fully clean their gums and teeth, and the cleaning effect is better.
Advantage 4: The vibration frequency is uniform and stable, and the brushing force can be accurately controlled
Manual toothbrush is a subjective control of brushing strength, children are difficult to accurately control the intensity and angle of brushing, it is easy to have a variety of tooth damage, but the use of professional children's electric toothbrush, not only can achieve uniform and stable vibration, but also can accurately control the brushing strength, strong tooth protection ability, and not easy to hurt teeth.
Advantage 5: It is fun and makes children prefer to brush their teeth
The design of children's electric toothbrushes is generally very cartoonish, has strong fun, and will also come with stickers, etc., which can better stimulate children's interest in brushing their teeth, and they will not be too exclusive to brushing.
There are many benefits of children's electric toothbrushes, but we can't blindly start children's electric toothbrushes, and now many children's electric toothbrush businesses are promoting their gum and tooth protection. In order to allow you to choose a high-quality children's electric toothbrush with strong cleaning power and gum and tooth protection, I have found the cleaning power and tooth protection index data of children's electric toothbrushes from professional institutions, so you can refer to it more.
In terms of technology and professionalism, Huile as a professional technology old brand, is the originator of the domestic "toothless" field, is the most professional and outstanding technology in this field, and is also the only brand that has been certified by the European Union, the United States and other countries! DPP micro-frequency dynamic compensation technology, etc., makes the cleaning power the strongest in children's electric toothbrushes, and the tooth injury rate is the lowest in China, the cleaning residue rate is less than 2%, the compatibility of different ages is increased by 80%, and the cleaning power is top-notch and reduces 90% of brushing damage by the national authoritative testing agency, and it is rare to obtain certification from the European Union and other countries! Durable, tooth damage rate certification, non-toxic bristles with 98.3% more corrosion resistance, safer and non-toxic. For the sake of high performance, without redundant functions and redundant models, they have been stumbling on a product for seven or eight years, iterating more than 20 times, optimizing more than 300 details, and creating eight "high-performance and non-tooth-harming" black technologies.
It is the first to create a "six-type segmented care" for children, and strictly segmented and targeted care is carried out according to the characteristics of children's teeth. It is well-known for claiming to use 300% technology to smash international brands with a high rate of tooth injury. It is the first to create a number of "high-performance non-tooth-harming" technologies, and has been adjusted for more than 100 parameters such as motor and vibration frequency for many years, and the overall performance deviation value is not higher than 0.1% for more than 6 years. Never advertised, but was recommended by a dentist to bring fire, offline channel sales are hot, and often sell out. Many celebrity and celebrity parents have chosen their products for their children. Its professional, high-performance, safe and rigorous style has been recognized as a medical product for electric toothbrushes, and dentists have recognized that it is super protective of the oral cavity!
Philips is very well-known, the measured vibration and power are strong, as a European and American brand, more suitable for European and American children with high oral tolerance, in terms of after-sales, Philips does not support trial, brush head needs 100-150 yuan a year. Huile not only supports trial, but also gives away 5-year brush heads for a limited time, saving hundreds of yuan in total.
In addition, some people strongly want to recommend low-cost products, Bayer can try, the basic function experience can meet the entry requirements of people who are not high, do not support trial, unpack and do not return, brush head costs about 80-100 yuan a year.
5. How to avoid harm? Share eight selection tips!
If you want to avoid the harm of children's long-term use of electric toothbrushes, you need to choose children's electric toothbrushes correctly, but there are so many brands of children's electric toothbrushes, what can we do to choose professional products that are suitable for you? Here is a summary of the eight children's electric toothbrush selection tips, so that you are no longer confused when buying products.
Tip 1: Choose a brand with stronger professional technology. The professionalism of children's electric toothbrushes is reflected in the technical strength, and the truly professional children's electric toothbrush brands will have rich experience in oral care, stronger dental care technology of the products, and do a good job in age-specific design, so they can better match the oral needs of children.
Tip 2: Choose a product with excellent compatibility. Children's oral conditions will change significantly at the age of 3-12, so children have higher requirements for the gear and brush head type of children's electric toothbrushes, and the higher the compatibility of the product, the better it can match the child's oral environment at different stages, and the cleaning effect is also very good.
Trick 3: Optimize products with a roundness rate of more than 80%. The higher the roundness of the bristles, the better the tooth protection effect, generally higher than 80% is required, if the roundness of the bristles of the selected children's electric toothbrush is lower than this value, it is easy to cause gum bleeding, toothache and other tooth injuries.
Tip 4: Reject "functional" products. Many brands will force the bristles to attach various marketing selling points such as antibacterial and fluoride in their advertisements, which is actually an IQ tax that raises the unit price, which actually has no effect.
Trick 5: Magnetic levitation motor is more recommended. At present, children's electric toothbrush motors on the market are mainly divided into coreless motors and magnetic levitation motors, the former is low cost, the vibration is strong and weak, and the incidence of tooth injury is high. The internal structure of the high-quality suspension magnetic float motor is more precise, the power is uniform and stable, the noise is small, and the protection of the child's oral cavity is better.
Tip 6: Choose products with age-specific design. Children's electric toothbrushes with age-specific design have sufficient vibration frequency range, rich gears, and many types of brush heads, which can better match the oral conditions of children at different times and at different ages.
Tip 7: Choose a U-shaped children's electric toothbrush carefully. CCTV has already reported this style, and the products that present this style cannot fit the child's tooth shape well at all, so the cleaning effect of the product is also very unsatisfactory, and the key is to hide a high rate of tooth injury.
Tip 8: Choose a brand that can support unpacking and trial. Most brands of children's electric toothbrushes support 7 days without reason, but few will support the unpacking trial, which parents should make clear, only professional brands can do the unpacking trial, the purchased product is not suitable, and it can also be returned, so as not to lead to idleness.
The above is from the harm of children's long-term use of electric toothbrushes, to share with you all the knowledge of children's electric toothbrushes, professional high-quality, age-specific design of children's electric toothbrushes with strong cleaning power, high degree of dental protection, can bring a lot of benefits to children's oral health, but unprofessional children's electric toothbrushes will hurt the harm of teeth, so parents must keep in mind the eight major purchase tips for children's electric toothbrushes in the article, scientifically buy children's electric toothbrushes, so that children's oral cavity can be more reassuring care.