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!

Picked this up in Bangkok around a month ago, also spotted in various Xiaomi stores in Malaysia since. I'd been travelling SEA for 4+ months with a Oral B Pro 3, which had the bulky induction charger base and needed to be charged multiple times a week with 2 people using it twice daily. This is a nice low cost replacement, gives as good or maybe better clean teeth feel (personal opinion) and loses the bulky charger. Cost 650THB/£15.15/$20.50 (appears cheaper again in Malaysia) USB C charging via direct port in the bottom, IPX8 cover rating. Tried and tested C2C using both regular and PD cables from my GaN block. Battery life is supposedly 180days (less if using highest setting), one full charge towards the start of ownership after C cable tests is still going strong with no sign of motor power decrease in close to 3 weeks of 2 people using twice daily. It has some brushing reminder function gimmick I don't care for, but it doesn't affect usage. Of the 3 motor levels I almost exclusively use the highest one. In the box was 1x brush head and 1x short C2A cable. Replacement heads came in packs of 3, also for a reasonable enough price of 429THB/£9.86/$13.32 in that store. I don't know how good availability of the replacements is outside of Asia, but it did appear that people resold them on Ali-express for a small markup. Likewise for the handle. This has now replaced my Oral B for the remaining months of my trip, and I will likely continue to use it at home too. Appreciate this is less useful for people without access to the Asian Xiaomi catalogue, but so far seems a solid, C2C option at a reasonably low cost.

Interesting, I just had a search and the brush head design looks almost identical bar the branding. This could be a vector to get more heads in future as they aren't available directly online from Xiaomi in my home country currently, whereas Soocas seems like its on Amazon. I also bought enough replacement head packs to last a while (18 months for 2 people) as they were cheap enough, so I'll have to test it out when I run low. One of the big positives I've found with this head design is that there are no holes/internal channels for toothpaste water to get caught in and smell. It's a real issue with the oral b ones, as even when you rinse them thoroughly they end up with some inside/on the handle where the head attaches. Thanks for the tip about the bottom guard. I'm personally not using it in the shower or getting the handle wet so hopefully there's better longevity, especially as it's being opened so infrequently to be charged.

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.