Oral-B - Pro 3 3000

Get pro 3 3000. It has everything plus pressure sensor. Good battery life and brush heads lasts 2 months plus, get the 4 pack and you are good for 1 year. I have mine for 3 plus years and it works just fine. Tip: place it on a dry surface always and clean the rotor every few days as toothpaste will form up residue on it causing damage.

The Pro3 has also has a Lithium battery which lasts about 2 weeks, the Pro1 has the old style NiMH battery. The toothbrush heads for the iO range are way more expensive too. The Pro3 is the sweet spot for features you will actually use in real life.

I just bought the pro3 2 weeks ago and Im happy with it.. I was researching and found a lot of complaints with mould on the new io brushes no matter how they cleaned it/stored it. That was enough to put me off.

Gimmick I’d say, and I’ve heard the iO series are notoriously hard to clean and some can build up mould. That being said of course an electric toothbrush is definitely worth it, just not the higher end ones (diminishing returns). I got the Oral B Pro 3 for £35 and it does everything I need it to and more!

I got an Oral B Pro 3 3500, for years I used Philips Sonicare which were excellent at the actual act of brushing but always broke after just over a year which eventually pushed me away from the brand as Sonicare toothbrushes are damn expensive but don't last. Amusingly when the last Sonicare broke I got out an ancient Oral B toothbrush which was over a decade old and it soldiered on for over a year before it finally gave up the ghost. Electric brushes in general are far better than old school brushes. My teeth always feel cleaner after.

My dentist recommended Oral-B Pro3 3500. He said I don’t need extra tech. The most important is the gum control, the cross section brush and 30 secs timer for each side while brushing my teeth.

I had it and hated how you have to cycle through the 3 modes to turn it off, can't turn it off with just one click

Hi! I have pretty fucked up teeth so I've had a lot of recommendations from dentists etc over the years. Oral-B and Philips Sonicare are the two market leaders and the ones I would go for. They have been around a long time and will most likely continue to be around, meaning availability of spare brush heads, replacement chargers etc is most likely to continue throughout the life of the toothbrush. The main difference between the two is the brush type. Sonicare has the ultrasonic agitation, but a longer, more oval shaped brush head. Oral-B lacks the ultrasonic, (though they do have a similar 'pulsonic' range), but has rotating brush heads that are round. I have had both and personally I prefer Oral-B as I find them easier to get good contact along the tooth surface, especially in molars, and easier to get in behind the molars etc too. You may have a different preference and if you've been using manual brushes so far, Sonicare will have a more familiar shape. Avoid the higher end ones from each brand, they are adding in connected services and all sorts of extra gubbins that just means more electronics and therefore more potential points of failure, ergo reduced BIFL-ness. The only additional feature other than being a toothbrush that I would recommend would be an indicator of brushing pressure (my Oral-B has a red light on the back) - users switching from manual brushes often brush too hard and over time this can cause damage. Something like the Oral-B Pro 3 3000 would fit the bill. Everything you need and nothing you don't. Philips equivalent would be something like the Sonicare 3100 series.

It doesn’t, but it covers the fundamentals. You’ll have to spend more for a pressure sensor I can recommend the Oral-B Pro 3 for one with the pressure sensor

For Oral B it is the model "3 Pro". Made in Germany and has the same power as the "iO" series. iO series is a scam. They made a different receptable so they only use their specific brushes that are 2-3 times more expensive. You get the old style brushes with both the classic and "advanced" head designs, it's just the receptable that does not fit. They advertise connectivity festures that are useless. Avoid those. Oral b vibrates and moves/shakes. Sonicare only vibrates.

Pro 3. Even original brushes for it are WAY cheaper. It has a pressure sensor and works the same. The IO app is a gimmick. The IO series is designed to pull money out of peoples pockets. I bought a mega pack of genuine pro 3 brushes from oral b for 1.2€ per brush on black friday on german amazon. For the IO you'd easily pay over 5€ per brush, sometimes even 10€. It's absurd, it won't last any longer. If you use the io brushes for longer cause they are pricey, they will just do a way worse job.