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.

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.

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.

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.

Oral B pro 3, worth every penny