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Review: Sonicare's DiamondClean Smart is a Premium Toothbrush That Connects to Your iPhone
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Touche.
I have a similar toothbrush (the OralB version).
Overall I haven't been entirely convinced. I think the potential is there but the technology doesn't quite work yet.
Firstly I have no problem spending this much on a toothbrush. Looking after your oral health costs hundreds of dollars a year. At $300 odd, this toothbrush would be profitable if it prevented a single extra filling every few years relative to a $2 toothbrush.
That out of the way, I found the smart features just don't work very well.
Firstly bluetooth really struggles in a family setting. Sometimes it thinks it is my wife brushing her teeth and syncs it into her history. The other half it thinks my daughter's brushing is actually mine. I wanted the history so I can check how often I forget. Occasional syncing errors are far more common than me forgetting.
Secondly the 3D features have real potential but the quality of the sensors just is not good enough. It frequently loses its lock on my head position and equally often thinks I'm brushing the opposite side of my mouth to what I actually am. This does not give me any confidence in its reports warning me that I am missing my lower buccal surfaces.
Thirdly I've found every mode except 'brush' to be pointless. Yes I'd like whiter teeth, but I'm not sure when I'm supposed to go and do a whiten brush rather than a regular one, so I just don't.
As a result I treat it as a good non-smart toothbrush. Give it a couple years for the tech to get cheaper, put in a better digital gyroscope and a little intraoral camera, and I think you'll have something that could make a measurable difference to oral health.
Overall I haven't been entirely convinced. I think the potential is there but the technology doesn't quite work yet.
Firstly I have no problem spending this much on a toothbrush. Looking after your oral health costs hundreds of dollars a year. At $300 odd, this toothbrush would be profitable if it prevented a single extra filling every few years relative to a $2 toothbrush.
That out of the way, I found the smart features just don't work very well.
Firstly bluetooth really struggles in a family setting. Sometimes it thinks it is my wife brushing her teeth and syncs it into her history. The other half it thinks my daughter's brushing is actually mine. I wanted the history so I can check how often I forget. Occasional syncing errors are far more common than me forgetting.
Secondly the 3D features have real potential but the quality of the sensors just is not good enough. It frequently loses its lock on my head position and equally often thinks I'm brushing the opposite side of my mouth to what I actually am. This does not give me any confidence in its reports warning me that I am missing my lower buccal surfaces.
Thirdly I've found every mode except 'brush' to be pointless. Yes I'd like whiter teeth, but I'm not sure when I'm supposed to go and do a whiten brush rather than a regular one, so I just don't.
As a result I treat it as a good non-smart toothbrush. Give it a couple years for the tech to get cheaper, put in a better digital gyroscope and a little intraoral camera, and I think you'll have something that could make a measurable difference to oral health.
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These brushes are stupid. In Europe, they have been with Bluetoth and iPhone-App for years.
The App deceives the user that the brush knows what tooth is in contact.
The brush only has a super-simple force sensor but no location determination.
Therefore that's unfortunately old sonic technology with new appearance.
I would have bought a smart brush, but not such a stupid scrubby.
3D aware brushies will come to market within the next years, I will wait that time.
The App deceives the user that the brush knows what tooth is in contact.
The brush only has a super-simple force sensor but no location determination.
Therefore that's unfortunately old sonic technology with new appearance.
I would have bought a smart brush, but not such a stupid scrubby.
3D aware brushies will come to market within the next years, I will wait that time.
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I pay $50 a year for a dental exam and just use a manual toothbrush, lol
As my dentist says. Clean your teeth but never hard and try and stay away from your gums. A simple $2.00 very soft tooth brush does the job and the dentist every 6 months looks after the build up on my teeth.
If you are like me, a bit laissez-faire when it comes to your brushing these really do work. My dentist agrees, my teeth have never been whiter or more problem free than since I got one of these (Oral B 8000 ftr). So if you need the incentive to brush on time, for the correct amount of time and evenly smart toothbrushes are a good investment.
The different programs are great too, you can choose a whitening program or focus on different problem areas in your mouth. Don't knock it until you've tried it.
I can assure communists, if they still exists, are not jealous of capitalism for dumbrushes
I wouldn't call myself a communist, and I could easily afford this product based only on price, it's just that's dumb, and not in a subjective way, any dentist would agree with that. It's one of the reason why pure capitalist economies are silly. Anyway, in a capitalist system like the USA, what you say it's not true, most of the people simply can't afford something like that, even if they want it, there is no choice at all.[doublepost=1504341426][/doublepost]
Electric brushes are definitely better than normal ones. But smart brushes? How dumb has the general population became to need smart brushes? I would say the problem it's the people not the brushes. There should be a limit at how much a person can delegate to technology before feeling maybe he may have gone too far. Can't remember to wash your teeth after the main meals? It's the real problem.
Wait, wait, wait, wait... Wait. You're gonna just sit there and not buy this thing that could lead to several executives possibly getting a 3rd vacation home or a new Gulfstream? You're just going to floss and brush every day? I guess the terrorists have already won. And the communists.
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My TP needs a software update... Whoop, wrong TP...
You may have had something interesting to say but I had to stop reading at your first sentence. Not only do they still exist communist nations are in the forefront of the news right now. So when you question their existence you completely undermine any "authority" on the topic.
How about parents trying to instil good dental hygiene behaviour in their kids by making it interesting via an app?
Heck yeah my son loves his sonicare with the app with the big furry sparkly thing. I think the brush was only $50.
I have the flexcare platinum connected, which is an earlier Bluetooth toothbrush. Honestly, the Bluetooth features work pretty well, aside from having to hold the brush at a slightly different angle than is habitual in order to register it's brushing a particular side of the teeth. The questions asked after brushing, like "did you floss" and "did you rinse" make you answer yes or no, which makes you feel bad for not doing those things. That's a little incentive to take care of your mouth better at least. I stopped using the Bluetooth features though because I got tired of having to open the app. If it would automatically work somehow when I brush, then it'd be convenient enough to use.
Me and my wife have a sonic care each. The internal mechanics of my first one broke and was replaced under warranty.
The second one lost the metal axel on which you fasten the brush. Also replaced under warranty.
My wife's one have begun to sound harsh and is making a rattling noise - like my did on which the mechanical internals came loose.
They are very nice tooth brushes but way to fragile or poorly built. I like the glass charging station and travel box with charging. That way you can charge it after 12-14 days while on vacation.
But instead of a Philips I got a Soocare from Xiaomi for our children. The charging station is not as good looking. And the travel box does not have a built in charger. But you don't need a travel charger with it because it lasts a month on one charge!
It's cheaper and do have Bluetooth connection and an app for those who want that.
If Philips would step up their poor quality internals I would get another one but I will not trust them again with thia kind money only to have it fall apart ones in a while.
The second one lost the metal axel on which you fasten the brush. Also replaced under warranty.
My wife's one have begun to sound harsh and is making a rattling noise - like my did on which the mechanical internals came loose.
They are very nice tooth brushes but way to fragile or poorly built. I like the glass charging station and travel box with charging. That way you can charge it after 12-14 days while on vacation.
But instead of a Philips I got a Soocare from Xiaomi for our children. The charging station is not as good looking. And the travel box does not have a built in charger. But you don't need a travel charger with it because it lasts a month on one charge!
It's cheaper and do have Bluetooth connection and an app for those who want that.
If Philips would step up their poor quality internals I would get another one but I will not trust them again with thia kind money only to have it fall apart ones in a while.