It has been a while since we had a chance to review a toothbrush. The Philips DiamondClean was a change from using other electric toothbrushes. This model is high-end. Your colour choices are black, white, pink, purple, and white/rose/gold. They come with a unique charger for the bathroom. It is wireless, but you place the tooth brush into a glass cup that sits on the charger. This way, when you are brushing your teeth, the cup is available for water or mouth wash. If the toothbrush is a little wet, the glass cup helps collect any water still dripping down – instead of getting it on the counter. The package comes with a travel case with a built-in USB charger, making it easy to charge on the road. The travel case also holds two brush heads (included) so two people can use the same base on the go.
The head is a little smaller than your typical toothbrush head and, once placed on top of the base, it’s also a little longer. In the first week of use, it took some getting used to. The toothbrush head vibrates extremely fast. If the solid plastic part of the head touches your teeth, you hear it inside your head. You eventually get use to avoid doing that. If you touch your lips or cheek as it is vibrating, it emits a tickling sensation.
The brush head that I usually use is round, which cups the teeth while brushing, where this oblong with longer bristles on the outside. Again, it took some getting used to making sure you got the accessible areas of your teeth. I found that it did do a quality job of cleaning. Philips boasts that it removes up to 10 times the plaque from hard to reach places than a manual toothbrush. I believe it. On your typical manual tooth brush, the plastic handle near the brush can be thicker, causing problems getting into tight corners – as compared to the slimmer design head that this unit has. They also say that it does over 31,000 strokes per minute, so you don’t need to worry too much that you did not brush vigorously enough.
The Sonicare DiamondClean claims also to whiten your teeth after a couple weeks’ use. Unfortunately, I did not have a way of testing that. They do have a setting on the toothbrush for when you are whitening your teeth. Other settings that you can put the brush into are polish, gum care, and sensitive.
A nice feature it has is that if gives a 30 second reminder so, if you are brushing your teeth in quadrants, you know that you have given each quadrant enough time. This way you don’t over brush one over another. Complete time of brushing is two minutes, which is the recommended time to brush by dentists.
The Philips Sonicare DiamondClean goes from about $189 to $240 depending on the colour and store. A package of two replacement heads go for about $40. If you are serious about clean white teeth, this is something you should pick up. The travel case will make it easy for those longer than normal trips. I know I will be traveling with mine since, the last trip I did, I forgot to bring the charger and before the week was over, I found I was trying to brush my teeth with a dead electric tooth brush. Having a USB charger on the case gives you the option of having it at work, in your car or anywhere you would like to use an electric toothbrush and charge it when not in use.
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Contributor Steve Polyak |
Topic Philips | Product Review |
