I regularly visit my dentist, I meant regularly every four months.
I floss before I go to bed at night, brush my teeth twice a day. Still, I was
scheduled for cleaning every four months.
My recent visit was different. Not in a good sense. The Hygienist
did what they call Periodontal Prob. It was to measure pocket
depths around a tooth. As she probed a tooth at a time, front and back, she
would speak up a number, ranging from 1 to 5 (in my case). The higher the
number, the deeper the pocket, equal bad news. I didn't want to
hear 4 or 5. But that was exactly what I got for few of my teeth. Because of
that, I was asked to come every three months! I was thinking, what I could do to
improve the health of my teeth. Surely the non-fluoride toothpaste and
mouthwash were not the reason for this. In fact, I'm happy that we have made the
decision to switch to natural toothpaste because of health reason. Fluoride is
killing people slowly! Although, we are still drinking the tap water which has fluoride in it...sad.
The next day at the office, I shared the
story to my colleague, and she said she used to have the same issue as mine.
She realized there must be something wrong with her method of brushing or flossing.
She then bought this electric toothbrush and tried it on for 3 months. Then she
went for her regular cleaning session when the Dentist praised her teeth. It's
improved and the result have been stabilized ever since.
I've always thought that electric toothbrush
is just a gimmick or made for lazy people (I was so wrong). Until I did some
reading about it and decided to try it out myself. I read some reviews on
Oral-B and Phillips, both have good and bad reviews. Few of the consumers
complaint was that they spent so much money on the higher end electric
toothbrush but it failed to work after few months. Others said for the middle
range price were also won't even charge when it first came out of its package.
So many issues, it got me confused. Thank God that few days later, while I was
still reading about electric toothbrushes, few of drugstores had promotion on
Oral-B which was actually what I had come down to after making my shortlist. I
bought the Oral-B Vitality Sensitive. First
try, I liked it although I found it a bit weird; the feeling of something
buzzing near your ear in a fast paced speed....ticklish...just unusual feeling.
Second try, I LOVED IT! My teeth felt super clean and I didn't feel bothered
with the buzzing sensation anymore. My question to my husband was, why didn't
we use this sooner?? Ha..ha..ha...
I highly recommend Oral-B Vitality Sensitive
electric toothbrush. I bought it on sale for $19.99 (regular price is from $31.99
to $34.99). I don't need the other features such as pressure measurement, how
well you clean your teeth etc. which what makes the price so expensive. Even
the $200 one failed only after a few months of used. That will be so annoying. So, from
the first time I used my brush on Monday, used two times a day, It still worked
on Wednesday night. I charged it for about an hour on Thursday morning and on
Saturday it still worked. The only downside I can think of is the two minutes
timer. When it reaches two minutes of brushing teeth, the machine will pulsate
to notify that two minutes is done. Because even though the way I did my
brushing was methodical and didn't do any repetition on same tooth, the two
minutes will be up before I finished brushing. Well, there may be something that
is still not right with the method I use....I can only say, continuous learning
always the best approach :)
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