- When it comes to choosing a toothbrush,
you have lots and lots of choice.
But if you want the very best in electric toothbrushes,
you should be looking at this.
The Oral-B Genius 9000.
We've been testing this for about four weeks now,
and we're here to give you our feedback.
Pros, cons, and overall conclusion.
Now there's a lot to cover on this electric toothbrush,
and we can't possibly cover all in this video review.
So be sure to check the link in the description
for the full written review that accompanies this video,
that covers every aspect of the brush
in a lot more detail.
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So, what makes this electric toothbrush so different?
Well it's Bluetooth.
Yes, Bluetooth.
The type of technology you would pair your smartphone
with speakers, maybe your car kit,
its in this electric toothbrush.
And you're probably thinking, why?
Well the idea is Oral-B want to make using your electric
toothbrush smart, and they want to help you.
And the Genius 9000 does that very well indeed.
Pairing your Genius 9000 to an iOS, or Android device.
With the use of an app, you can track your tooth cleaning
as your actually cleaning your teeth.
And post clean in terms of the schedule,
and how regularly you clean your teeth,
and general overall performance.
Now that works very well in principle.
But the day to day activity of actually doing that
is a little bit different.
Now in the box with the Genius 9000 you do get a smart phone
holder, because you need to use the front facing camera
on your smartphone to actually track where the toothbrush
is in the mouth, and how well you're cleaning.
Now that smartphone holder typically has to attach
to a mirror, or a tiled surface in your bathroom.
And we found that for us during testing,
we had to place that slap bang in the middle of the mirror.
Now a smartphone holder isn't the average thing that you'll
find in your bathroom, and it's not something that
everybody will want.
Now you can remove it, it's just a suction cup style
attachment, and the holder itself works with a variety
of smartphones, but it's just something to consider.
Because each time you then wish to clean your teeth,
you have to pop your smartphone in,
make sure its lined up, get the camera aligned,
and it can be a bit of a fiddle and add more time
to the whole toothbrush cleaning experience.
Now you can get used to that, you don't have to use the app
all the time for the actual tracking because the brush
itself retains some of those cleans in it.
But if you want to get the perfect experience when cleaning
your teeth, it's well worth doing.
Now the app itself is fairly good.
We didn't find it worked perfectly all the time.
You have to be aligned quite right, and it doesn't
always measure accurately but it's definitely a step
in the right direction.
And basically the app will tell you if you're focusing
on the wrong areas of the mouth.
So for example if you're spending too much time
on the front teeth, and need to spend more time on the back
it will certainly tell you that.
So in the box with the Genius 9000 you get the brush itself,
which is available in black or white.
You get four different brush heads.
You get a CrossAction, 3D White, FlossAction, and Sensitive.
You get a brush head storage compartment.
You get a charger, you get a smartphone holder,
you get documentation.
You get a premium travel case,
and a charger for that premium travel case.
So lets touch on that premium travel case.
A very smart travel case that'll hold the toothbrush
handle itself, and up to two brush heads.
It allows you to charge the brush in the case,
which previously you weren't able to do.
So it comes with a separate charger,
which will connect to the two-pin socket
you often see in bathrooms.
So that connects into the premium travel case.
The case itself has a soft touch finish,
it's quite weighty.
And it's also got a stand on the front that you can
use to position your smartphone in,
which is quiet a nice feature.
Also on the travel case is a USB port,
into which you can connect a USB cable for charging
the likes of your smartphone.
So it's an innovative kind of feature.
I'm not all that sold on it,
whilst I like the idea, you have to take a proprietary
charger for the travel case itself, and then you've
got to take the USB cable for your phone,
and then it's got to be probably normally positioned
in the bathroom because that's where the two pin socket is,
unless you have an adapter,
so it's a bit of a mixed feeling on that one,
but it's a very nice travel case.
And it's a good box contents with the toothbrush.
There's various different cleaning modes, six in total.
You've got a Daily Clean, a Whitening, a Gum Care mode,
a Sensitive mode, a Pro Clean mode,
and a Tongue Cleaning mode.
You've got the modes highlighted on the front of the brush
handle here, they illuminate white when in use.
Unfortunately there's no icon for the Daily Clean mode,
which seems a little bit odd to me,
but there is one for every other.
You've got the power button,
you've got the function button which allows you to change
the different cleaning modes.
You've got the Bluetooth icon,
you've got the battery status icon,
and the Oral-B icon's down here.
It'd be nice to see a digital percentage sign
for how much is left in the battery.
The three bars aren't particularly clear,
I would have thought with the app nowadays,
you could have got that.
But it does flash red when its really low
and needs a charge.
Talking of battery internally the battery now has been
increased to allow up to 12 days of usage time.
Compared to the previous 10 days seen on the Pro 6000,
from times gone by.
Actually in the hand the brush is nice to hold,
it feels comfortable.
There's a nice rubber grip on the back here.
Of course this is all black on this Genius 9000,
but that would be white on the Genius 9000
if you had it in white.
One of the interesting things to know is the brush heads
do only come in white.
So if you've got a Genius 9000 in black,
you have to have a white brush head.
I think the white brush heads fit better with the white
chassis of the brush, but that's just personal opinion.
One of the other features here is the LED Smart Ring.
You have up to 12 customizable colours that you can programme
this ring to actually be.
Just adds a nice touch to the brush as well.
And that Smart Ring, also is where the pressure sensor
will illuminate, illuminate red.
And also the app will illuminate red as well
when you're pressing too hard.
Now the brush will intelligently reduce the amount of power
delivered to the teeth if you are indeed pressing
too hard, but you need to relieve that pressure as soon
as possible to avoid doing too much damage.
Built into the brush is a timer.
You have a two minute timer, because you're recommended
to brush your teeth for two minutes a day.
You also have a quad pacer, because your mouth is broken
up typically into four sections.
And you should spent 30 seconds on each section,
so the smart ring will illuminate,
you'll also hear a change in sound in the brush
as it identifies the 30 second intervals
and at the end of the two minute cycle.
So we bought this brush for the price of £140.
The RRP of this is around £280,
but from day one we bought it for half price.
So the brush is quite expensive, working out around
about 16, 17p a day if you get it at that £140 price point.
That's a lot more expensive than a lot of electric
toothbrushes that could be picked up for around £30-£40,
but you do get all the features here.
Things like the smart travel case,
the brush head storage compartment.
This works well for a family, the extended battery life,
there's lots and offer loads of different cleaning modes
so this is kind of the very best in terms of electric
toothbrush that you can get.
But you're going to be paying for it.
But over sort of three years,
you do end up getting quite good value for money
from it, you have a two year warranty is standard
that can be extended to three years
when you register it online.
So overall we're quite impressed with this brush.
There are loads of features on this brush
that we can't possibly cover all in this one video review.
So we have a very detailed written review to accompany
this video, click the link in the description
to be taken through so that way you can read about
all the different features, as well as get sort of summary
and bullet point overviews
to the pros and cons of this brush.
But we do think the Genius 9000 is an excellent brush,
with lots of features if you're willing to spend the money.
So thanks very much for watching.
And we'll see you in the next one.
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