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Oral-B Pro 5000 SmartSeries Review – With Bluetooth (Electric Toothbrush)

By Philip Yiga | July 10, 2015

The Oral-B Pro 5000 SmartSeries is the world’s first toothbrush with Bluetooth connectivity. In fact, Bluetooth communication allows this toothbrush to connect with your Smartphone in order to provide you with real-time feedback about your brushing habits. Additionally, this toothbrush features an advanced CrossAction brush-head which surrounds each tooth with bristles angled at 16-degrees to a ensure a thorough brushing experience.

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Likewise, the 3D cleaning-action on this toothbrush oscillates, rotates and pulsates in order to break-up and remove up to 100-percent more plaque than a manual toothbrush. The Oral-B Pro 5000 even features a pressure sensor which lights-up in case you brush too hard in order prevent over-brushing which can be harmful to your teeth and gum. Lastly, this toothbrush even has 5-modes coupled with a timer which helps the user to brush for the dentist-recommended time of 2-minutes. In conclusion, the Oral-B Pro 5000 is designed to be easy and comfortable to use hence you won’t regret getting yourself one.

PROS:

Oral-B Pro 5000 SmartSeries toothbrush with Bluetooth provides real-time feedback while brushing whereby it features an oral-B app which focuses your brushing on most important areas, tracks and habits over time. In fact, this toothbrush also provides helpful oral care tips that motivate the user to brush well daily.
This toothbrush encourages the user to brush gently because it’s equipped with a pressure sensor which lets you know when you are brushing too hard by lighting-up and stopping pulsations in order to protect the gums.
The Oral-B Pro 5000 SmartSeries will thoroughly clean your teeth and gum because it uses superior 3D cleaning whereby it oscillates, rotates and pulsates in order remove 100-percent more plaque than a regular toothbrush.

CONS:

The first weakness about this toothbrush is that it takes longer hours to get fully charged and this can actually be frustrating for some people. However, its battery is strong enough and can last for about 10-days with regular use when fully charged.
Secondly, the user-manual that comes with this toothbrush is somehow weak because it provides insufficient information about this toothbrush. In fact, this manual features multiple oral-B models in the SmartSeries line and most to them are not really relevant to this particular toothbrush. This implies that the user will be a bit confused about setting-up this toothbrush.

Features overview:

Bluetooth communication: The Oral-B Pro 5000 is an advanced electric-toothbrush that can communicate with your Smartphone via Bluetooth connectivity in order to provide real-time feedback on your brushing-technique in efforts to help improve overall oral-health while also providing entertainment as you brush.

3D cleaning: the 3D cleaning function sweeps side-to-side, rotates and even pulsates to break-up and remove up to 100-percent more plaque than with a manual toothbrush. This means that your teeth will be thoroughly cleaned thus hindering the development of bacteria and plaque which are associated with improper teeth-cleaning.

5 cleaning-modes: The Oral-B PRO 5000 Bluetooth SmartSeries electric-toothbrush features 5 cleaning-modes which include; Daily-Clean, Gum-Care, Sensitive, Whitening and Deep-Clean. Daily-Clean mode works with 3D-movement to ensure basic, everyday cleaning, Gum-Care features a massage-mode which ensures gentle stimulation of gums while brushing, Sensitive mode operates at a lower speed in order to gently clean gums and teeth, Whitening-mode actually alternates between speeds for gentle polishing of the tooth-surface in order to remove surface-stains and Deep-Clean mode will extend your brushing-time for a more comprehensive cleaning routine.

CrossAction brush-head: The Oral-B PRO 5000 SmartSeries toothbrush is equipped with a professionally inspired CrossAction, round brush-head which is specially designed to ensure tooth-by-tooth cleaning while the CrissCross-bristles are set at a 16-degree angle in order to reach deep between teeth so as to lift and remove up to 100-percent more plaque than a manual toothbrush.

Pressure sensor: This toothbrush features a visible Pressure-Sensor that lets you know when you are brushing too-hard by simply lighting-up and stopping pulsations in order to help protect your gums as you brush. In fact, it’s very important to brush gently in order to promote proper cleaning with less harm.

The handle is compatible with multiple oral-B brush-heads: the Oral-B toothbrush is compatible with a variety of brush-head refills in order to fit your oral-health needs. This means that you can always tryout a new Oral-B electric toothbrush head depending on what you wish to achieve. As you all know that the PRO 5000 SmartSeries toothbrush with Bluetooth is compatible with a wide range of Oral-B heads, here some of the heads that can attach onto its handle; CrossAction, Deep-Sweep, Floss-Action, ProWhite, Precision-Clean, Sensitive, Dual-Clean, Power-Tip and Ortho.

2 minute timer: The Oral-B PRO 5000 Bluetooth electric-toothbrush uses a 2-minute timer to make sure that the user brushes for long enough daily. Additionally, every 30 seconds this toothbrush pulses to remind the user to move onto the next quadrant of the mouth so that all the teeth can be thoroughly cleaned.

Real-time feedback: with the Oral-B PRO 5000 toothbrush, you simply have to download the Oral-B app on your Smartphone and then connect with Bluetooth in order to get real-time feedback on your brushing-habits. in fact, this real-time feedback focuses brushing on the most important areas and even sets time for each quadrant of the mouth, tracks your brushing-habits over time using intuitive graphs and charts while storing up-to 6 months of brushing-data and also motivates you to brush for the dentist recommended time of 2-minutes while providing helpful oral-care tips and rewards.

Powerful rechargeable battery: the toothbrush has an in-built, strong rechargeable battery which when fully charged can last for up to 10-days with regular-use of the toothbrush. However, to ensure that this battery is able to hold its maximum-capacity, try to deplete it by using the toothbrush without in-between charges until it becomes fully discharged and then recharge it. It is recommended to do this for at-least once every 6 months for best results.

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Product Quality:

Oral-B Pro 5000 SmartSeries with Bluetooth is great, new toothbrush that will make cleaning teeth very easy. First of all, this toothbrush communicates with your Smartphone via Bluetooth in order to provide you with real-time feedback on your brushing technique. Additionally, this toothbrush features a 2-minute timer to ensure that the user brushes for the dentist recommended time of 2-minutes whereby every 30 seconds this toothbrush pulses to remind you to move to the next quadrant of the mouth so that the teeth can be thoroughly cleaned. Likewise, the pressure sensor on this toothbrush lets the user know incase he/she is brushing too-hard so that they don’t risk injuring the sensitive gum-tissue.

On the other hand, the Oral-B Pro 5000 SmartSeries features 5-brushing modes to provide your teeth with customized care. The modes include; daily-clean mode which helps meet your everyday dental-health needs, sensitive-mode for a more gentle and comfortable brushing routine, whitening-mode for making teeth white, massaging-mode for taking care of the gums and deep-cleaning mode in case you feel like your oral-health requires extra cleaning. Additionally, this toothbrush handle is compatible with a wide-range of oral-B toothbrush series brush-heads excluding the Pulsonic range. On top of that, this toothbrush even comes with a convenient charging-station which helps to recharge its in-built battery. In conclusion, the Oral-B Pro 5000 SmartSeries with Bluetooth Electric-toothbrush is designed to ensure easy usage and extra comfort while brushing.

Who does it benefit?

It works for people with gum-problems: the Oral-B Pro 5000 SmartSeries toothbrush will work perfectly foe people with gum-problems or diseases because it features a visible pressure-sensor which lets the user know when he/she is brushing too-hard by lighting-up and stopping pulsations in order to protect the gums. Additionally, this toothbrush even features a gum-care function which uses the massage-mode for gentle stimulation of the gums.

Great for people who prefer to use several brush-heads with their electric-toothbrushes: the Oral-B Pro 5000 SmartSeries is actually compatible with a wide-range of oral-B brush heads and these include; floss-action, deep-sweep, ProWhite, sensitive, precision-clean, dual-clean, power-tip and Ortho. This implies that you can always use a desired brush-head in order fulfill your brushing needs.

What Else Do You Need?

Oral B Sensitive Refill Brush-heads: in case you have very sensitive-teeth then you need purchase and use sensitive brush-heads in order to experience a comfortable and thorough brushing routine. In fact, these refills are very affordable and you can get them from nearby local-store or form an online-store.

Oral-B Professional Floss-Action Replacement Brush-Head: this floss-action refill helps you to thoroughly floss your teeth in order to remove any remaining foods and plaque between teeth to get rid of tooth bacteria and decay.