Review on 🦷 Highly Effective Philips Sonicare HX6311 Rechargeable Toothbrush by Dawn Rodrigues

My toddler is 2.5 years old and can focus like a squirrel on anything related to a task. He has a full set of teeth and a big appetite, and I often see him struggling to get scraps of food between his teeth. He's been able to gargle and spit for a long time, but it's purely for entertainment purposes. So far I haven't found a way to make brushing my teeth a pleasure that makes even half sense for oral hygiene. 7 minutes of sweating and giving orders through more and more clenched teeth, saliva dripping on both of us, for what? The biggest success with brushing my teeth was that my little one ate a small amount of toothpaste. I found that I often avoided taking the time to brush my teeth, sometimes I feared them, sometimes I gave them to my husband (who is no better), sometimes I felt completely defeated and overwhelmed. We have slipped quietly into the dungeons of poor oral hygiene. I had nightmares about children's dentists at night. Until we got the Sonicare brush. I planned to give it to him as a toy for a while and only reintroduce it as a toothbrush when it was convenient for him. The buzz drew him in immediately (I was counting on it), and to my surprise, he effortlessly made a cognitive leap to understand what it was for. In fact, the first night he got it, he tried brushing his teeth while chewing on his dinner. Expecting a distraction, I fed him broccoli, mushrooms, and other foods of suspicious texture. Back then I had no problem taking him to the sink to use the brush for what it was supposed to do. Toothpaste is ground quickly when the head is powered by ultrasound, so the ability to eat the paste fades quickly in the first few seconds. And that's a good thing. The head is smaller than our normal toothbrush, so his side teeth finally meet the toothbrush for the first time. He's never had a toothbrush placed on the inside of his cheeks and not doing any useful work there because there just isn't enough room in the baby's mouth or enough coordination on his part to stay relaxed, sweeping down his cheek. cheeks inside. Are other people's babies different in this regard? I turned it towards me and with only a few pauses to rinse and spit out the water we ended up with a real thorough brushing that actually cleaned my teeth on ALL surfaces leaving them CLEAN. As clean as my own teeth can be when brushed with a regular toothbrush, no qualitative adjustments are made to the baby's behavior. Dentist nightmares are over. I look forward to a lifetime of happy dental exams (fingers crossed I had bad teeth growing up). Ultrasonic Brush Bonus: Keep the vibrating head in water + vinegar after use, it will clean itself and the dirt that normally builds up on the base of a regular toothbrush over time never builds up on the head of an ultrasonic brush. Much more hygienic than a manual toothbrush. I'm experimenting with taping my manual toothbrush onto the Philips connector so the ultrasonic vibrations are transmitted to it and clean the dirt mentioned. Water + alcohol, water + a few drops of grapefruit seed extract (GSE in health food stores), water + baking soda, water + peroxide also work, anything food and sanitizer. Only immerse the brush head and not the body of the Sonicare in liquid to prevent liquid from getting into the electrical parts. -electric), and that is very lucky because it fits perfectly in the baby's mouth. The stickers included in the kit don't stick to the brush for very long, but that doesn't detract from the brush's attractiveness or effectiveness. Musical timers and auto-off might be nice for older kids, but for now we ignore them and take numerous breaks to chat and spit. We use an average of 2-3 two-minute cycles when brushing our teeth and countless cycles when we play with it on our lunch break. The brush is very long, the aspect ratio is similar or identical to that of an adult brush, making it more difficult for a baby to control it alone, but I won't trust him with that just yet. The gentle vibration mode is very helpful to make brushing bearable for a small child. All in all, it was a significantly less frustrating experience for both of us than manual tooth cleaning and, most importantly, an experience that ended with a completely clean mouth for my high standards as a mother. A note on lithium-ion batteries in general: not just Sonicare: charge them fully before the first cleaning, then let them fully discharge before charging again. Allow the battery to cycle between extreme states of charge and discharge each time instead of recharging after a few uses. This prolongs the life of the battery as each charge destroys the microstructure of the electrodes a bit, so you should try to minimize charge cycles over the life of the battery. Also valid for your phone, tablet, electric car (if you dare) and any other device that uses lithium-ion batteries. A BIG BLACK POINT for Philips for the fact that the battery cannot be removed: when the battery dies you have to throw away your toothbrush. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I'd really like to think I can replace it with another battery. Developing a toothbrush with a removable, replaceable battery is NOT such a big technological breakthrough! I look forward to consumer electronics that are durable, serviceable and repairable, and don't pollute our planet. That is the reason for four instead of five stars.