Oral-B Healthy Clean + Floss Action Precision 5000 Rechargeable Electric Toothbrush, 1 Count
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Oral-B Healthy Clean + Floss Action Precision 5000 Rechargeable Electric Toothbrush, 1 Count Details
Manufacturer: Oral-BBrand: Oral B
Release Date: 2009-07-18
Model: 10069055856854
Product features:
- Deep Clean mode removes up to 99.7% of plaque from hard to reach areas
- Gentle on teeth and gums
- Improves gum health better than Sonicare FlexCare
- Outstanding whitening and polishing in 3 weeks
- FlossAction technology for superior overall clean.
Customer Reviews of Oral-B Healthy Clean + Floss Action Precision 5000 Rechargeable Electric Toothbrush, 1 Count
Customer Review: It's like your personal dentist! Been an Oral B user for over a decade
Summary: 5 Stars
Oral B SmartSeries 5000
The Oral B 5000 is the top of the line electric toothbrush. I used to have an older Oral B from the late 1990s that worked well up until the point where I couldn't find it around my house. The Ni-Accu battery pack was running strong and I could have used it for another 5-10 years. Then I got a few Oral B Vitality units from the dentist for free, which use inferior Ni-Cd batteries and have a battery life of about 3-5 days with regular usage. My old Oral B could last 3 weeks on a single charge.
The cool aspect of these Oral B units is that a lot of their brushes are compatible. The Precision Clean, Sensitive, Polishing, and new Floss Action are interchangeable with a few exceptions (like the Cross/Dual action garbage). The Floss Action worked horribly in my Vitality, but seems to work incredibly well with this SmartSeries 5000. I think it has to do with the RPM/speed of the motor. The Vitality comes across as grindy/noisy when it is operating, while the SmartSeries 5000 is smoother and faster.
While brushing in the Daily Cleaning or Sensitive modes with the 5000, the Floss Action brush really works to clean my teeth and gumline. It doesn't hurt like it did with the Vitality! The Precision Clean brushes are probably the de-facto standard, but I invite you to try the Floss Action heads just to see how it feels. I also have the Sensitive brush heads that I want to try later on. I can tell you for a fact that my teeth felt cleaner brushing with the same Floss Action head on the Smart Series 5000 versus using the Vitality or a regular tooth brush.
What does the Smart Series 5000 offer over other brushes? Well, the 5000 has a LCD indicator on the unit itself to tell you the battery's state of charge. Neat gimmick, but I have wondered in the past whether my toothbrush was good to go in terms of state of charge. Wonder no more, because you get a bar graph indicator!
The 5000 has 2 buttons: one to turn on/off and another to select different cleaning modes. It defaults to daily cleaning (same as Deep Cleaning), and progresses to feather/sensitive, massaging, polishing, and deep clean. The Deep Clean changes the timer to increase the amount of time for your brushing, but it is the same speed as the daily cleaning mode. The timer defaults to counting up, and fluctuates the brush head speed every 30 seconds to tell you to switch quadrants in your mouth, and does the typical Oral B twitch at 2 minutes to tell you that you're done.
The wireless timer/clock module is a neat gimmick offered on the 5000 and not the 4000. I don't find that it is particularly mandatory, but It does have a clock and changes to a timer when you use the brush. It also lights up a red LED if you press too hard on the brush head while brushing. While experimenting, I found that you really had to jam down on the brush head to cause it to cut power to the brush. Chances are you're not brushing hard with an Oral B because you want the RPM's to do the work with the brush. I tried SonicAire and other products, including Oral B's cross-action, but found the traditional Oral B to be the ultimate.
The Smart Series 5000 comes with 1 Floss action head and 1 polishing head. The bristles are also indicators, you're supposed to change them when the blue color disappears halfway down. I find that this generally occurs every 6 months, and you can order new heads from Amazon for a lot less than buying them in stores (usually).
The Smart Series 5000 also comes with a plastic hard travel case, and a slim charger unit that is more of a ring than a peg like on the older models. This makes cleaning a lot easier. The included battery is a NiMH cell, which means it has a much higher capacity than NiCd and doesn't suffer the memory effect. I am going to keep the Vitality as a travel brush, so if someone from the hotel nicks the Vitality, it's not a big loss.
The Smart Series 5000 is a very smart investment for your personal dental hygiene. I brush with Oral B at least once a day (at night before I go to sleep). My dentist and hygienist always mention how clean my teeth and gums look, so the Oral B must be doing its job!
Overall: 5/5 stars
UPDATE: 4 MAR 2011
After running the Oral B Smart Series 5000 without charging it, I noticed that I can easily get 10 days of normal routine usage (2-3 times a day for 1 person) before the battery meter starts blinking with 1 bar remaining. I used it for about 12 days and estimate I can get another 2-3 days before the battery is totally drained. As someone that travels routinely for business, I can opt to not bring my charger along for week long trips because I know the battery can last at the least 10 days before needing a charge. I'd push it as far as 15 days!
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Description of Oral-B Healthy Clean + Floss Action Precision 5000 Rechargeable Electric Toothbrush, 1 Count
Experience the future of oral care. Oral-B Professional Care Smart Series 5000 Rechargeable Electric Toothbrush (formerly known as the Oral-B Triumph) -- provides extraordinary cleaning and improves brushing habits.Experience the future of oral care. Oral-B Professional Care Smart Series 5000 Rechargeable Toothbrush -- provides extraordinary cleaning and improves brushing habits.
- Deep Clean mode removes up to 99.7% of plaque from hard to reach areas
- Gentle on teeth and gums
- Improves gum health better than Sonicare FlexCare
- Outstanding whitening and polishing in 3 weeks
- Flossaction technology for superior overall clean
- Wireless SmartGuide helps maximize brushing performance
- 5 modes: Daily Clean, Sensitive, Massage, Whitening, Deep Clean
- Can be used with the following Oral-B Refill Heads: Oral-B Floss Action, Oral-B ProWhite, Oral-B Dual Clean, Oral-B Precision Clean, Oral-B Sensitive, Oral-B BracesCare, Oral-B OrthoCare
With Oral-B® Professional Care® 5000, you can customize your routine with a variety of Oral-B replacement heads:
Floss Action?
- Advanced cleaning deep between teeth
- Features soft MicroPulse? bristles
Precision Clean
- Cleaner teeth, healthier gums (vs. a regular manual toothbrush)
- Features more cleaning bristles and superior tooth cupping (vs. original Precision Clean)
Pro White
- Advanced cleaning and whitening
- Features dentist-inspired polishing cup
Dual Clean
- Breaks up and sweeps away plaque
- Features two moving heads
Sensitive Clean
- Gentle, effective cleaning
- Features extra soft bristles
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