Essence Sonic electric toothbrush

We bought a pair of the newer H series Philips Sonicare at Costco when Costco quit carrying the replacement heads for our older E series. Several years down the line and one of them (mine, of course) started making an awful racket. I discovered that the metal rod connecting the head to the base was sloppy loose and could be swiveled around, while hubby's was rock solid. I dug out one of the old ones that we'd thankfully kept along with the last unopened head and it still had a charge! I've been using that for the last few days and my teeth feel way cleaner. I'm going to buy some knockoff heads on Amazon and if those don't work out I'm going to buy the Oral B brand. I just don't have confidence in Philips anymore.

My dad works at Sonicare so I've had one since I was like 6 and I can never go back, I love my skull shaker

I love my e series too, 8+ years and counting. It’s a bummer Costco stopped selling the official replacement heads. Where are you getting yours from currently?

Yeah unfortunately they stopped selling it after summer. Which is why I’m in the market to buy a new sonicare because the e series brusheads alone cost 7-8$ each on eBay. Might as well get a new brush and get the heads from Costco while they’re on sale.

I replaced my Sonicare e series because the heads were getting difficult to find. I bought the new 5300 Sonicare. It feels great to use, but because both my wife and I use it, we take the brushes on and off daily. It lasted about a year or so, then broke. Sonicare replaced it. The replacement lasted about 3 months. Sonicare would not replace it again. If you can leave the head on, this is a fantastic brush. If not, I would not recommend it. The older screw on brush heads were the best. We gave ours to my son and it is still going strong after 10 plus years. The new ones, not so good.

This is a fact. I had the original sonicare which I loved except for the bulky replacement heads. When it died I bought a fancy one with different speeds etc. but only ever use it on ‘high’. I do like the quadpace timer though and would recommend that feature.

Sonicares are crap - broken 2 or 3. Oral Bs have been solid. The original sonicare was actually really well made.

My first Sonicare toothbrush was their base version that sold for $78 at Target. This was in 2002 when there was on a few versions. The replacement head was some screw in type. That toothbrush handle lasted me 9 yrs. Nowadays, they definitely don’t last as long. I’d be lucky to get 3 yrs till the internal connector piece to the toothbrush head fails. You can YouTube how to “fix” them, but you’ll also see why it’s a terrible mechanical design.