- This is the Oral-B Stages Power electric toothbrush
designed for kids.
I've been testing it for a few weeks,
and I'm here to give you my opinion on it.
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So here is the Stages Power electric toothbrush
designed specifically for kids,
and although I'm not a kid myself,
I've got the opinion of some kids
in the review process of this.
I'm here to give you, kind of like a summary
of everything that I've considered.
There's a full written review that accompanies this video,
check the link in the description,
it goes into a lot more detail.
Now, the first think to know,
there's a few different designs and package options
with the Stages Power electric toothbrush.
It's all based on Disney characters.
This is the Frozen one,
but there's like Star Wars, and there's Cars,
so, different ones to suit different children
and their desires.
You also get different gift pack options,
which include a tube of toothpaste as well.
So, here is the Frozen one.
The design and colours may differ,
but the actual handle, shape and features are the same.
So, we got quite bold colours here.
We've kind of got like a purply rubber grip
and around the power button
we've got this kind of turquoisey-blue panel
that stretches all around and then at the top
we've got the interchangeable brush head.
This is a smaller brush head
than you get with an adult selection toothbrush,
designed specifically for children
and their small mouths and smaller teeth.
Soft bristles on here as well.
On the base of the brush handle,
we've got a recess for charging the brush back up.
We've got the logo and everything here,
we've got the nice grips on the back,
which make it really easy for the small hands of children
to grip onto.
We didn't find any children kind of dropping this.
So see they can take a little bit of a tough life
when in the hands of children,
but it's very simple and easy to use.
There's just a single power button on the front here
that launches the one and only cleaning mode
and that lasts for two minutes.
It has a kind of built-in timer built into it,
so when the brush is running,
at two minutes you get multiple pauses
in the brush head motor and its motion
to kind of alert the child that the cleaning is over.
The brush will continue to run.
They'd have to actually turn it off
to stop the motion of the brush,
but that gives the audible alert that the clean is over.
Now to help children clean, as we know
they don't particularly like brushing their teeth.
They need a bit of encouragement and supervision really.
There is a Disney app that you can download
for Android and iOS that works in conjunction
with this electric toothbrush.
Now it's quite clever in the way it does it.
You use the camera of your smartphone
to scan your toothbrush,
and it brings up customizations to the app
that kind of meet the design of the toothbrush.
So this one with Frozen, when we were using the app,
its bringing up Frozen themes and provides an onscreen timer
to try and encourage kids to brush more.
It's got visualisations, that as they're
using the electric toothbrush, they keep looking
at the smartphone and cleaning their teeth accordingly.
Sadly there's no actual pairing
between the toothbrush and the phone,
so in theory, the app could be running and counting down
for two minutes and the child couldn't actually be brushing.
But if you can get them to use it simultaneously,
it allows you to keep logs and tracks,
and you can set user profiles for different children
and things like that.
Now one of the downsides to this brush.
It's a fairly slim handled brush.
It's got a nickel-metal hydride battery
which only lasts five days,
which is equivalent to 20 minutes of usage time.
So two cleans per day for two minutes.
So after about five days,
you're going to need to charge it again.
Now kids aren't particularly good at remembering
to put their toothbrush on the charging stand,
so try and train them to that.
We found kids did leave them off,
but it's easy to set the brush on the supplied charger
that comes in the box.
It works on 220 to 240 volts.
It's a two pin plug that connects to the sockets you find
in bathrooms here in the UK.
It takes about 15 hours or so to charge,
but it's perfectly safe to leave the brush
on the charging stand.
So kind of get them used to just putting it on
once they've finished cleaning their teeth.
The brush also comes with a two year warranty,
which is good peace of mind
if the kids end up breaking it, but to be truthful,
you're probably not going to have to make use of it
because they're fairly reliable brushes
and the cost of these brushes kind of make it,
so not cost effective to return it under warranty
in most cases.
Now the retail price of this brush is 35 pound
but in reality we found most of the time
you could pick it up for about 18 to 20 pounds.
When you include the cost of replacement heads,
over a three year period, which is a typical life
of an electric toothbrush.
This works out about five pence per day,
which I have to say is really good value.
The additional movements that you get
from the brush head of an electric toothbrush
and the ease with which kids can brush their teeth,
I think is a worthwhile investment.
And this is certainly a good option for young children
to get them educated and encouraged to brush their teeth.
So I actually regard this quite highly,
although the battery life could be better.
If you want more information,
be sure to check out the full written review
that accompanies this video.
Until next time, thanks for watching.
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