It comes in two shades, champagne and midnight blue, and includes a stylish and compact pleather travel case that doubles as a USB-C charger. It’s giving Kendall Roy vibes, the kind of brush you might whip out of a Tom Ford washbag in the bathroom of a Learjet. The Philips Sonicare 9900 Prestige is an exceptionally smart-looking electric toothbrush.

Suri is a highly recommended electric toothbrush, even if you absolutely despise the environment. Even the matching charging dock has been well designed to fit in with bathroom decor.īattery life lasts about a month between charges, and the 33,000 sonic vibrations per second give a comprehensive clean without the added fuss of an app or a fancy on-brush display.

It looks sleek and stylish, is compact, has an optional self-cleaning case and an optional magnetic mount for storing it on your bathroom mirror. While we can’t measure the impact of Suri’s green mission, we’re definitely on board with the concept, which is made all the easier because the toothbrush itself is one of the best we’ve tested. The corn-starch toothbrush heads, for example, can be returned to Suri for composting – just pop them in a freepost envelope. Whereas regular electric toothbrushes are destined to spend most of their existence in a landfill, Suri aims to be the world’s most sustainable electric toothbrush, by using parts that are more easily recycled or repaired. The lack of an accompanying “smart” app means you can happily watch TikToks on your phone while you brush, too, like normal people. In our tests there was no discernible difference to the appearance of our teeth using either mode, but like other brushes in our list the Oral-B Pro 3 left our teeth with that trademark “just been to the dentist” feeling. Instead it uses the last 20 seconds of your cleaning timer to instruct you to “buff” your front teeth with increasingly fast oscillations, in theory polishing them up for a brighter smile. The whitening mode appears across the entire Oral-B range (and on lots of similar brushes), but as you might suspect it’s not actually whitening your teeth. slower oscillations), and the promising-sounding whitening mode. It has everything you really need and none of the frills: it’s compatible with the standard Oral-B brush heads, it has a timer with 30 second pacing buzzes, three modes, a pressure sensor and a two week battery life. The best affordable electric toothbrush Oral-B makes, the Pro 3 is noticeably less powerful than the iO range but will essentially clean your teeth just as competently as the more expensive brushes, with all their techy bells and whistles. If you’re shopping for your child’s electric toothbrush, check out our guide to the best kids’ toothbrushes to please even the most paste-averse little ones. We’ve also tested some more environmentally sustainable electric toothbrushes, which aim to reduce plastic waste by using recyclable brush heads. Most of the brushes we’ve featured have all of these basic necessities included, and where there are exceptions we’ve pointed them out. More modes doesn’t necessarily mean a better result: in our testing we found modes mostly differed only by the intensity of the oscillating action and the time spent brushing each part of your mouth. Key features to look out for are pressure sensors, which tell you off for brushing too hard, and timers, which remind you when it’s time to move on to the next part of your mouth or stop brushing. You might not need a coaching app to tell you how to brush your teeth properly, and you might not need a luxury toothbrush travel case that doubles as a charger. That’s why we’ve put together a list of the best electric toothbrushes to suit every budget and every mouth.Īs you might have already suspected, the best electric toothbrush isn’t necessarily the priciest one with the most advanced features. Oral-B and Philips have more options than you have teeth, with a bewildering array of models ranging from the cheap battery-powered Philips One to the premium Oral-B iO9 and Philips Sonicare 9900 brushes. Thinking of buying a new electric toothbrush but don’t know where to start? We don’t blame you.

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