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Should I use electric toothbrush for cleaning my teeth?
Regular tooth brushing is considered to be among the most important oral hygiene maintenance measure. A soft bristled tooth brush with a dentist prescribed fluoridated dentifrice is the ideal combination for cleaning your teeth when you perform proper tooth brushing technique shown to you by your own Gilbert dentists at the dental and oral consultation visits in the dental office. Dental health care professionals are of the opinion that the most important component of meticulous tooth cleaning includes following proper tooth brushing technique. Using the best tooth brush and good quality tooth paste can all go in vain if you are following faulty tooth brushing technique. Always make sure to involve all tooth surfaces during brushing your teeth for removing the food debris and dental plaque film especially from non-self cleansable areas of your teeth. Deep pits and fissures on the occluding surfaces and areas beneath the contact points of your teeth need special attention during tooth brushing and dental flossing.
Tooth brushes are available in various shapes and designs in the market. Choice of tooth brush depends upon personal preference and ease of use during cleaning various surfaces of teeth. According to their mechanism of action, tooth brushes can be divided as manual and powered tooth brushes. Powered or electric tooth brushes employ use of electric energy for power generation in the tooth brush bristles for the removal of impacted food particles and dental plaque bio-film. Gilbert dentists are of the opinion that both manual and electric tooth brushes can perform equally well cleaning of teeth if these are used with correct tooth brushing technique. However, some recent studies have shown that electric tooth brushes can have added advantage in some clinical situations. Furthermore, special individuals such as handicapped persons in the society, medically compromised individuals and senior citizens who cannot exert the required force during tooth brushing procedure can benefit from electric or powered tooth brushes. The following article compares manual and powered tooth brushes in order to guide people regarding maintenance of oral hygiene conditions.
In the past, Consumer Reports has said electric and manual toothbrushes are equally effective as long as you brush teeth thoroughly for 2 minutes, twice a day. But an analysis of 56 studies published in 2014 by the international evidence-based research organization Cochrane found that electric models may have a slight edge.
if you don’t currently have gingivitis, “it really doesn’t matter which brush you use.” And in terms of plaque, “we really don’t know that it matters if a little more or less plaque is removed,” he says. An electric toothbrush may help, however, if you have arthritis or a dexterity problem that makes thorough brushing difficult, Friedman notes.
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2015/08/electric-toothbrush-vs-manual/index.htm