Parent Club Review: Oral-B

Parent Club was challenged to a four week review some new Oral-B products. We sent the challenge out to our test panel and we had more than one parent e-mail to be chosen for this review. Everyone must want cleaner teeth!

Products:

• Oral-B Vitality Precision Clean - a power toothbrush
  
• Crest Pro-Health toothpaste
  
• Crest Pro-Health Rinse

The review consisted of a dentist check-up*, using the products over the course of four weeks and then a follow up dentist check up to compare teeth before and after. Here are the results...

Feedback from Parent Club test panelist's dentist: First visit (March 27, 2009)

Parent: How would you describe my overall oral health?
Dentist: Overall oral health is a B+.

Parent: How would you describe the level of plaque?
Dentist:Not much plaque, more hardened plaque.

Parent: Do I have signs of gingivitis? If so which areas should I pay close attention to?
Dentist:Yes, there is signs of gingivitis on my back upper teeth. I have 4 bleeding spots.

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Feedback from dentist: Second visit (April 29, 2009)

Parent: How would you describe my overall oral health?
Dentist: Overall oral health is a better.

Parent: How would you describe the level of plaque?
Dentist: Plaque was reduced a little. Hardened plaque was still there. It can only be removed by scaling.

Parent: Do I have signs of gingivitis? If so which areas should I pay close attention to?
Dentist: Yes, there is signs of gingivitis on my back upper teeth. On the second visit I only had one bleeding spot.

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My feedback on the products:

I liked the toothbrush, it was light weight and easy to use. The one thing that it lacked was that it didn't have space on the base to store other brushes for a family.

The tooth paste was awful, in my opinion. It was gritty and left a taste in my mouth all day. (Good for weight loss!!!)

The night one was even worse, it made me gag and I almost threw up a couple of times. I stopped using it the day I went for the last check up.

The dental floss was not effective at all. It was too thin and didn't do the job.

The rinse was good. I liked the taste and it was refreshing. I may have not be able to continue with the paste if it wasn't for the rinse. Also, to be fair I normally don't use paste, but rather gel, so this my also be why I didn't like the paste. (Busy Mom, educator, 3 children)

dentist check-up* - the panelist was reimbursed for the cost of both dentist check-ups directly from organization.