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Oral-B Professional Healthy Clean Precision 1000 Rechargeable Electric Toothbrush
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 Beware Oral-B Rebate Offers
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By Mommy Needs a Drink on February 16, 2013
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The brush it's self is mediocre, I like my Sonic Care much better. This one seems jerky and less well-made. I spend $35 on the item when there was a rebate deal going with Oral-B for $15 right before Christmas, and had I gotten the rebate I would say the brush was worth about $20. No way would I have bought and kept it at $35. But, after taking the frustration free box apart to send in the required codes for the rebate I couldn't have returned it anyway.
Beware if you ever see a rebate offer from Oral-B they don't seem to have any interest in actually rebating you anything. After hearing nothing from them for 6 wks I called this week to find out where my rebate was (and to check on a friend's rebate who bought this item after I told her about the deal). The rebate center couldn't find anything for my friend or myself. Both rebate refunds magically disappeared. Strange enough if it had just been my rebate, but for both of them to go missing is far fetched.
24 of 28 people found the above review helpful.
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 Compared to Sonicare
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By Rex Kullmann on September 10, 2012
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I've been a Sonicare user for a while now, and I wanted to see how the Oral-B Healthy Clean Precision 1000 stacks up against my Sonicare Healthy White Easy Clean. Both are basic rechargeable electric toothbrushes with few fancy features, but a emphasis on cleaning ability.
The Sonicare is a more aggressive toothbrush, while the Oral-B is gentler. Sonicare seems to acknowledge that it's toothbrushes are aggressive because it gives them a feature called Easy-Start that ramps up power over the first 14 times you use the brush so you and your gums can get used to the punishment. No such feature is present or needed for the Oral-B. Instead of vibrating up and down against the gum line, the Oral-B's brush head oscillates rapidly. It is supposed to pulse as well, but it must be too subtle for me to see or feel. The overall feeling is a little rubbery.
The other thing I noticed is that the brush head is thicker than the one on the Sonicare, meaning you'll need more room between your teeth and cheek when brushing your side teeth. The distance between the tip of the bristles to the back side of the brush head is ⅞" vs ⅝" for the Sonicare. It's not a problem for me, but I can see it might be an issue for someone with a smaller mouth. It may also be the reason Oral-B doesn't give you a cap with your brush heads.
I prefer the Sonicare, but I want to point out some advantages of the Oral-B. First of all, it's cheaper. As I write this, Amazon is offering the Oral-B for around $50 as compared to $66 for the Sonicare. The replacement brush heads are cheaper too. $25 will buy you a thee pack of Sonicare brush heads, but a four pack of Oral-B heads. And while you seldom see Sonicare heads discounted, my local BJ's has six packs of Oral-B heads for under $30. That's less than $5 per head. That's a big savings over the life of the brush. I've been guilty of not replacing my Sonicare brush heads as often as I should, just because they're so darn expensive. $5 per head makes me feel better about chucking old brush heads in the trash.
Speaking of brush heads, Oral-B offers a wide range of them. The owner's manual lists eight different heads you can buy. There are brush heads for people with sensitive teeth, wearers of braces, people with crowns and bridges, people who want to whiten and more. My local BJ's has floss head brushes for $32 per six pack.
The Oral-B comes in an easy-to-open box. All the packaging is cardboard. No frustrating plastic clamshell that needs to be cut open with scissors. I'm all for eco-friendly, frustration-free packaging. Well done, Braun.
By the way, if you take the Sonicare out of your mouth while it's running, it'll fling toothpaste and saliva all over the bathroom. That's not recommended with the Oral-B either, but it makes a lot less mess. Sounds kind-of silly, but about the third time you have to clean your bathroom because you were careless when you swapped your toothbrush from one side to the other, it starts to seem less silly.
My gut feeling is that the Sonicare cleans better, but I have no evidence to back that up. Either brush will clean much, much better than a manual brush. The Oral-B is gentler, cheaper and has more options for people with sensitive teeth or dental work.
127 of 127 people found the above review helpful.
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 Decent toothbrush for the money
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By cindycated on August 04, 2012
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This replaces a dead Cybersonic 2 that I had for 12 years. For a really long time now, it wouldn't hold a charge - just long enough for me to use it once, then I'd have to stick it back on the charger again. Then the switch was malfunctioning, so yeah, time for a new one. I picked this model because I wanted to try the Floss Action head, and it was a step up from Vitality which moves at about 1/4 of the speed of this one. The higher models move at twice the speed of this one and have a couple more settings, but then I thought, "do I really need that?" I thought it might've been overkill, and just didn't have a ton of money to spend on a toothbrush this time around. When I lucked out and saw a new one of these on eBay for $27.99/free ship (didn't wanna hassle with the rebate), I decided to give it a try. It comes with 1 Precision head, but there was a $3 coupon enclosed, and the Floss Action heads were on sale at Walgreen's. So I got a 3-pack of FA heads for $18.99. Not bad for instant gratification. I really like tongue cleaner attachments, so I also managed to order the Mouthcare Essentials kit for $18.99/free ship from Bonanza (I think this kit goes for $45).
I've been using it for 3 days. On my first day, my first thought was that it was scary-percussive. I was afraid that it was gonna knock my teeth loose! But I kept using it, and thankfully my teeth are still intact. It is a little loud, but I think they all are. What I like about this type of loud is that it's a low-pitched hum - like a really quiet biplane (haha, if you can imagine that) - so it's not too annoying. There are stutters to let you know how long you've been brushing, but they're easy enough to ignore, and the unit doesn't turn itself off. Nice, since I brush for way longer than 2 minutes. It stutters too when you're brushing too hard, which is a welcome feature that I didn't have before. Having the unit with all my attachments just willy nilly on my counter, or even in a drawer, was driving me nuts, but I found a small bait-and-tackle type case at Daiso for $1.50 that fits everything perfectly (I'll try to post a pic). A pencil case would've done the trick too, but Target's assortment wasn't so good this year. My Cybersonic had head covers and a base for the unit and all the attachments. The higher models probably have one too, but I don't know how useful they are, and this one little quirk certainly wasn't worth the added expense to me - so I'm happy with the one I got.
The -1 star is because of the head. The diameter of the bristles is fine - what really bugs me is the depth of the fat stem. I wish they could've made it a little flatter, or at least recessed that area where the part with the bristles attaches to it. That protrusion totally prevents me from getting the bristles to the chewing area of my back teeth, which really pisses me off, because I like to be thorough. So I end up having to hit those manually with my old Cybersonic head. Bummer. I've had to readjust how I brush my inner bottom fronts too. I have to hold the handle upside-down and almost completely vertical, and hit those from above. I don't remember ever having to do that with my Cybersonic. Awkward. But other than that, I'm pretty happy with my purchase. Especially since I got everything so cheap!
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Philips vs. Oral-B
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By S. Boucher on April 15, 2012
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I own both the Philips Sonicare Essence 5300 and the Oral-B Professional Care 1000 and have used both extensively. They are very different toothbrushes.
The Philips uses sonic technology that causes the brush to vibrate extremely fast without it actually moving much; this subtle quality creates a more pleasant brushing experience than the Oral-B. It also has a longer more traditional brush that I like better for tongue cleaning, and for getting into certain spaces between teeth. I find the brush ends too sharp and uncomfortable to use for gum massaging.
The Oral-B has a round brush that acts more like a jackhammer in that it is much more physical and vigorous than the Philips. I can also apply more pressure with the Oral-B (important for cleaning molars). These two qualities makes it better for deep cleaning. The brush is also softer than the Philips, which combined with the "vigorous" quality makes it better for gum massaging.
Which one I use depends on what I want. I use the Oral-B about 65% of the time, the Philips about 35%. I give the edge to Oral-B since deep cleaning is most important to me, though I'm still glad I have the Philips for light jobs.
39 of 45 people found the above review helpful.
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 Good disposable toothbrush.
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By Book Hound on January 04, 2012
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Our 1000 model lasted us just over 10 months before the battery cell went bad.
I call Oral-B. They assure me that the NiMh cells they use will last a minimum of three years and realistically a max of 5 years. Sounds great. If that happens, then I'll have gotten my money's worth from it.
No problem. I've used these toothbrushes for 12 years now. They're workhorses. We just got a bad one.
Send it in to a service center for warranty claim. Postage + insurance costs $8.
Three weeks later, we get back a used charger and what appears to be a new 3000-series brush unit. Fine with us. Only two problems...It takes right at two days undisturbed on the charger to reach a full charge AND from full charge we get 2-3 brushings before the motor runs too slow to be useful.
Another bad battery cell? I don't know. Maybe it's the used charger, but I doubt it.
Another $8 to send this piece of crap back to the service center. Another three weeks to get it back.
Good. A different used charger and a brush handle that also appears to be other than new. The female charge socket of the brush handle was quite scuffed and dirty, suggesting it had been on an off of a charging unit quite a bit, like maybe at someone else's house. I look at it and think, "Oh, good...I just paid $16 in postage for a used toothbrush."
We put this one on the charger. 2-1/2 days later (I'm not exaggerating) the handle shows a full charge. It's two weeks later now and it still takes 2-1/2 days on the charger to get a full charge. Obviously a bad cell, charger, or charging circuit, or a little of all three.
Do I spend another $8 to repeat this process yet again (for the third time in six weeks)? Nope. $24 and 9 weeks of hassle just isn't a fair price for a used toothbrush.
I was a long-time happy customer of this line of brushes. At present, I'm on the lower edge of just a customer of this line of brushes. And I'll jump ship as soon as I find something that I think might actually last.
In my opinion, based on my experience, you should be pleasantly surprised if any of these electric brushes (of at least the 1000 and 3000 models) lasts more than a year. Going in with your expectations set low will most likely save you some of the frustration we've had with our several these past couple months.
The brush still does a great job cleaning our teeth, but I've stopped looking at Oral-B as a tank and more as a disposable unit that will have to be replaced within a year.
29 of 32 people found the above review helpful.
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Sweet spot for price and performance
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By Ammy_Evaluator on October 09, 2010
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Oral-B has a number of brushes available - the Sonic, Vitality, the Professional Care family (which comprises the 1000 and 3000), and the Professional Care SmartSeries (4000 and 5000). The Oral-B 1000 is the entry level of the Professional Care series.
In my usage of the Vitality and the Oral-B 1000, the Oral-B 1000 stands at the minimum level of functionality to make an electric toothbrush viable.
For example, the Vitality does not have a quadrant timer (it beeps only at the end of the 2-minute cycle), is rated at only 7600 oscillations per second, and does not have battery charging indicators.
The brushes in the Professional Care series on the other hand add quadrant timers, and are rated both at 8800 oscillations per second and at 40,000 pulsations per second.
As you go higher in the Professional Care family you get multiple brush modes (daily clean, sensitive, polish, deep clean), pressure sensors, and even wireless displays.
Overall, the brush is simply wonderful. I've tried the pro white, precision clean, and dual clean brush heads, and I'm simply thrilled with each, though the dual clean head is my favorite. It works noticeably better than my manual toothbrush, in particular with cleaning between my teeth.
I'm definitely a happy camper.
Do note that the Professional Care 1000's specifications indicate the presence of a pressure sensor. Unfortunately this does not work on my brush - and given the experience of other reviewers - I'm inclined to think this is simply a misprint in the specs.
Happy Brushing!
20 of 23 people found the above review helpful.
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