03.Product profiles
Profiles - what to buy
Braun Oral-B Professional Care 8500 (A)
Price $150
Trialist comments
- “The timers are great – means I don’t have to concentrate when brushing.”
- “Teeth felt cleaner, cleaning feels a little more in depth.”
- “It was a bit too strong so couldn’t brush for long.”
(A) Discontinued, but may still be available in some stores.
Braun Oral-B Professional Care 9500 Triumph (with Smart Guide*)
Price $200
Trialist comments
- “My teeth feel cleaner than they ever have.”
- “A good shape for a comfortable grip.”
- “I love this toothbrush; it has an interactive timer that smiles when you complete the cycle.”
- “Kept pressing the options button rather than On/Off.”
- *The smart guide is a wireless screen that shows when you have finished cleaning for the dentist-recommended minimum of two minutes and warns you when you brush too hard.
Braun Oral-B Vitality Precision Clean
Price $40
Trialist comments
- “Great for cleaning teeth in a fast and effective way.”
- “Cleaned teeth very thoroughly. Massaged gums.”
- “A really good brush – the thing that would make it excellent would be a 30-second timer.”
- “Small circular head requires the brush to be moved around more, but is better for access to back teeth.”
Profiles - the rest
Braun Oral-B Professional Care 5000
Price $100
Trialist comments
- “I felt it did a better job than my standard manual brush, was easy to use and comfortable.”
- “It can make your gums feel a little tender the first couple of times you use it.”
- “Would be really good if it had a 30-second timer and a container to store brush heads.”
- “The vibrations were rather strong, but this meant it cleaned thoroughly.”
Colgate Actibrush Multi-Action
Price $16
Trialist comments
- “Sometimes the smaller head got in the way.”
- “Smaller head/brush preferred. Good that it could be taken in the shower.”
- “Sometimes hit On/Off switch while brushing.”
- “With two moving parts, I didn’t quite know which one to focus on.”
- “It was okay. Good for battery operated.”
Colgate Motion
Price $11
Trialist comments
- “The powered head is too weak – hardly noticeable when in use.”
- “Very quiet, but cleaning wasn’t as good as others.”
- “Rotations slowed on back of teeth.”
- “The head was too big and kept hitting my teeth.”
- The Colgate Motion no longer has brush heads available, so if you decide on this toothbrush, you’ll need to replace the heads with ones from the Colgate Actibrush Multi-Action.
Spinbrush Pro-Clean
Price $14
Trialist comments
- “It has two moving heads which tend to work well.”
- “Average cleaning and too noisy.”
- “The slide button was easier than a button.”
- “It was lacking in power – I didn’t feel the brush movement was doing much. Too hard to manoeuver.”
Abode QSQ-22101
Price $5
Trialist comments
- “Vibrations stopped with any sort of pressure so it just didn’t clean.”
- “Complete waste of batteries. Spun around and did nothing, felt like I had to clean my teeth with another brush after I’d finished.”
- “It was very difficult to start – I had to press using my thumb nail very hard.”
- “Lacking power, even sounds like it’s on its way out! Very poor.”
- “I like the head – easy to reach difficult places.”
Braun Oral-B CrossAction Power Max
Price $26
Trialist comments
- “It was extremely noisy.”
- “The double brush head was quite large and very difficult to get into the back of the mouth.”
- “Didn’t like the shape of the handle. Out of the charger it wouldn’t stand up.”
- “Pretty good generally, but sounded too noisy, like an electric razor.”
- “Neither great nor poor, whilst it felt good in the hand, it didn’t feel as though it did much. What’s with the horrible colour?”