Followup to Oral-B toothbrushes failing, what to get

[Fritz]

we have a very old Oral B Pulsonic 3715.
Hygienist rec'd too.

[PeterB]

freeradical wrote:
Oral-B says that that you need to completely discharge the battery from time to time to extend its life.

We all know this already.

Oh yeah. I actually always do this, let the battery run down completely and then recharge. I would say that it definitely has helped: my current Oral-B's (which are now finally dying) are probably at least about 10-15 years old now.

[Spiff]

Interesting. I've had my oral B professional 9000 since, probably 2002. It is finally dying an agonizingly slow death. I have never discharged it to empty. I have always kept it on the charger ring. It now barely lasts 1 day without sitting on the ring. I'd say that's pretty good for 18 years. No! 19 years!

I'm looking at another OralB. I have found that the round head of the OralB does an awesome job of getting at my back molars and beyond. I got all my teeth, too. Nothing pulled.

[mattkime]

I started out on oral b and switched to sonicare and was hoping the hygienist would sing the praises of sonicare and nothing changed for me. ymmv

[space-time]

I use BOTH.

Oral B: easier too reach in the back, seems to clean better between the teeth. 3 soft heads are around $18 on Amazon. I have an older model,

Oral-B Professional Healthy Clean + Floss Action Precision 5000 Rechargeable Electric Toothbrush 1 Count

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008PEMOV6/

but very strange, that URL leads to a different product. The title seems correct though, the image and description are for some teeth withering device. Strange.

Sonicare: you need to get used to the vibrations, wife didn't like it. It seems to lean just as good or even better on the outside surfaces of the teeth, I have doubts about how well it cleans between the teeth. Also not as easy to reach in the back.

Brush heads are EXPENSIVE. Almost 2x as much as Oral B.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KZH...le?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The main advantage of Sonicare over Oral B is that the charger has a cover shape and water drains out. Oral B has a major design flaw: the charger has a concave shape, water stays there and you get water stains or even mold in the charger base.

[NewtonMP2100]

....good.....oral....?????

[PeterB]

... on that Oral-B two-for-one deal. It just looked like a great deal: it works out to be nearly exactly the same amount of money I paid 10-15 years ago for the two Oral-B Professional brushes that I bought, and obviously those lasted quite a long time. Plus I still have a lot of the brush heads (and I added a package of two brush heads to my order, so as to get the $20 discount). I really like having two brushes because it means I always have one charged, ready to go, and each brush is getting less use.