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I think the electric toothbrush by Braun or by Sonicare are very good products, but the
usage of them you have to be very careful because a lot of times damage can occur because
of miss-usage because especially with Sonicare. So Sonicare toothbrush you can't just go scrubbing
like that with it. You kind of have to place it on the area that you want to get clean
and the placement has to be passive too. It can not be heavy. If you do it heavy pressure
it will cause irritation and it will eat away the enamel and the gum. And the same thing
with the Braun toothbrush. The Braun toothbrush kind of oscillates back and forth and you
kind of have to do the same thing a little bit like Sonicare. If you follow those procedures
then the electric toothbrushes are a very good product and they work very, very well.
You've got to be careful and you don't scrub them or use them like a traditional toothbrush.
The electric toothbrush you have to be able to place on the surface, the enamel surface
area that needs to be cleaned. When you do that, you place light, light pressure, not
heavy, heavy pressure. And a lot of times we're so used to putting heavy pressure so
we can scrub them so we can get that sensation of being clean, but what you're actually doing
is we're damaging the foundation of that tooth, the gum and the bone around it. And so in
the brushing, we usually brush with 20 seconds or a minute. We should lengthen that time
between two minutes and five minutes. A lot of times what I do is just put a little bit
of toothpaste on my Braun Oral B toothbrush and I just sit back on the couch and just
watch the news, the TV and I just let the brush do its work going all the way around.
And then boom, it's five minutes. And after five minutes you're done. And that sensation,
that traditional sensation that we used to feel after will be there as you keep doing
this over and over and over again. And it does feel clean and it will clean very well.