Reasons for Using an Electric Toothbrush
Using an electric toothbrush is one of the best ways for improving your oral hygiene and gum health. Even if any toothbrush is able to help your oral care and prevention, there are several advantages of using an electric toothbrush over a manual toothbrush. Dr. Birnbaum encourages you to use electric toothbrushes due to these benefits. Here you have some:
Effectively removes plaque
Manual brushing cannot reach all the corners of your mouth and, thus, plaque and tartar building up your teeth may not be removed properly. The rotating head of an electric brush features bristles that reach further using brush motion and pressure. In studies, the vibration and rotation of an electric toothbrush can reduce plaque by 21 percent in 3 months time. This also impacts positively against gingivitis and gum disease, which can be reduced 11 percent. Also, they work evenly in your mouth, avoiding having one side cleaner than the other. Additionally, electric toothbrushes can also beneficially impact against bad breath, because they are more effectively removing plaque and food between your teeth.
Longer, more thorough teeth brushing
Electric toothbrushes may come with a built-in timer that can set up the pace and the necessary time needed to thoroughly clean each quadrant of your mouth. This guarantees a better and improved brushing without damaging the guns or the enamel under any circumstance. This can especially benefit kids, because it can help the right amount of time needed to have an optimal mouth clean and set up healthy oral care habits.
It does the work for you
The same way electric toothbrushing improves the oral health for people with orthodontic appliances like braces, it can ultimately make our oral hygiene easier. With an electric toothbrush we surrender all the hard work to a device that has been calibrated in all ways—time, rotation, vibration, pressure—to optimally perform its task. We do not need to perform any task or effort: using an electric toothbrush is effortless.
Contact Dr. Birnbaum today at (617) 965-1400 or book your appointment for your professional dental checkup or cleaning today.