- The Oral-B Vitality electric toothbrush
is a fairly cost effective, entry level toothbrush.
Available from many stores.
I've been testing this for a few weeks
to tell you whether it is really worth your investment
or whether you could do better.
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So having now spent a few weeks with
the Oral-B Vitality electric toothbrush,
I think I have a pretty good understanding
of what this brush is like.
So let's start with the design.
First of all it's fairly solid construction.
It's mainly a plastic in terms of the actual build
and it's got kind of like a tapered design
to the body here.
It gets thicker as we go towards the top.
What I do like is the fact
that it's got this really nice expansive rubber
on the back for gripping.
I think the colour scheme could be a little bit better
but it's kind of got that blue/green aqua feel.
We've got this nice,
simple to press power button on the front.
It's tactile but it can't be easily activated.
You need to give it a little bit of pressure.
Whilst the tampered design,
I think makes it look a bit smarter.
I would personally prefer if it was kind of
the same thickness all the way down
the actual brush handle.
The benefit is here though that the battery
is built into the body of this brush,
it's not user replaceable.
On the bottom of the brush handle we've got
the little hole here into which the charging stand sits
for charging the battery that's internal to this brush.
And on the top here we've got
the precision clean brush head
that comes provided in the box.
You get one brush head included,
you get the brush handle and a charging stand.
So this brush is a fairly no nonsense,
no thrills electric toothbrush just designed
to get your teeth cleaned.
It comes with one cleaning mode,
that's the daily clean mode,
which lasts for two minutes.
Now at the end of a two minute cycle on here you do get
a pause in the brush head speed essentially tells you
that the clean is over.
It doesn't automatically turn the handle off
and during those two minutes you get no notifications
of how long you've been cleaning for.
The built in battery last for five days
or 20 minutes of cleaning time.
So, based on two cleanings per day for two minutes.
That's not the best.
I think it could be longer when you consider
that many of the Philips brushes lasts for up to three weeks
and Oral-Bs Pro Series lasts for seven days.
It's not terrible though,
you get the charging stand included in the box
and you can leave this on charge pretty much all
the time to replenish that battery.
A down side to this also though with that battery life
is there's no status icon here on the brush handle
to tell you how much battery power is remaining.
So it's easy to forget whether you charged it yesterday
or the day before and the only way you're ever going to tell
if the brush is depleted is when the brush head gets slow
or the brush completely turns itself off.
The power of the brush head is okay
but the Pro Series or the Smart Series from Oral-B
do deliver more power.
The good news is though by using this electric toothbrush,
you will remove up to five times more plaque
than a manual brush.
The recommended retail price
of this brush is actually 35 pounds
but typically you can find this brush for 25 pounds or less.
Quite often well under the 20 pounds if I'm honest,
if you were to shop around a little bit.
If you take the cost
of this brush over a three year period,
this works out about five pence a day to actually own.
So having spent a couple of weeks with it,
tried other Oral-B brushes,
I've got to say this isn't bad
but I think you can probably do
a little bit better for your money
if you're prepared to spend a bit more.
Get a bit more battery life,
your power status icons
and perhaps a little bit more power delivery through
the brush head with the likes of
the Oral-B Pro 2000, for example.
But, certainly not a bad investment
and if you're picking this up
for under 20 pounds consider it a pretty good deal.
But if you're willing to spend over
that sort of 20 pounds I think you could do better
for your money.
So, this is the video review for the Oral-B Vitality.
There is a full written review
that accompanies this video over at www.electricteeth.co.uk.
Thanks for watching.
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