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can this beginner-friendly model give you a healthy smile?
Price: £35 at Boots and £34.99 at Amazon
Telegraph rating: 8 of 10
We like:
- It’s easy to use
- Pressure control technology helps protect your gums
- It has an extra-long battery life
We don’t like:
- There’s no indicator on the handle showing cleaning mode selection
- It’s tricky to save your favourite cleaning mode
- It takes 24 hours to fully charge
What is the Oral B iO2?
There’s no denying that the best electric toothbrushes vary wildly in price and quality, so finding the right one can feel overwhelming. This iO2 sits towards the lower end of Oral-B’s price range. For comparison, their high-tech iO10 is an eye-watering £830 at full price, whereas the popular Pro 3 3000 costs around £130. Oral-B toothbrushes, indeed all electric toothbrushes, are almost always sold with discounts of 50 per cent or more.
The American brand has worked with dentists to ensure this beginner-friendly brush has features which are useful to a first time electric toothbrush owner, including a timer that lets you know when to change brushing locations every 30 seconds, a built-in pressure control function suitable for sensitive gums, and three cleaning modes; sensitive-plus, sensitive and daily clean.
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How we test electric toothbrushes
I used the toothbrush to clean my teeth for a week, morning and evening, for a full two minutes each time. I considered how easy it was to set up and charge for first use, what using it was like, how I found the various cleaning modes and extra features. I took into account the design and whether it was a stylish addition to my bathroom, how comfortable using it was, whether it was noisy and rattly or quiet and smooth, and how it compared in general to the older Oral B Pro 3 3000 brush. Finally, I analysed how clean my teeth felt after using it.
