But I do think the quip helped me brush longer than a manual toothbrush? Yes, the 30 seconds per quadrant pulsing feature really does help you do a more thorough job of cleaning your teeth and gums.īut here’s the thing. Final thoughtsĭo I think that the quip toothbrush cleaned my teeth better than a manual toothbrush? No, not really. I normally use Sensodyne Pronamel toothpaste and found the quip toothpaste to have more grit than what I’m used to but the taste of the paste was just fine and it cleaned my teeth fine as well. I was also sent a tube of quip mint toothpaste. One thing I noticed about the quip’s aluminum handle is that it gets slippery after toothpaste and spit start running down your hand.
After 2 minutes, the brush pulses twice and stops vibrating to let you know that the brushing session has ended. The vibration sensation might cause people to think that they can just hold the bristles against their teeth to clean them without actually moving the brush back and forth across their teeth and gums.Įven though the brush bristles don’t move, the vibration feature is useful because the toothbrush pulses every 30 seconds to prompt you to move to the next quadrant of your mouth. Although you can feel the vibration in the handle, the bristles don’t spin or even move at all. If you’ve used other electric toothbrushes, you won’t be impressed with the way the quip feels against your teeth. All you need to do is remove it from the package, rinse the bristles, add a pea-sized blob of toothpaste, press the q button on the handle and brush your teeth. Since the quip toothbrush runs on one AAA ordinary alkaline battery, you don’t have to worry about charging it up for your first brushing session. It can also be used as a travel cover like you see above. This holder has an adhesive strip on the side so it can be attached to your bathroom mirror or wall. Rubber O-rings keep the mechanism water-tight.Ī toothbrush holder is included with the quip. It can also be removed if the AAA battery in the handle needs to be replaced. The brush head can be removed when it needs to be replaced after 3 months.
Pressing this button turns on a 2-minute brushing timer. It’s built into the white part of the brush head where you see the q. You might notice the power button though. The analog timer worked surprisingly well with our testers, who found the falling sand mesmerizing, but in the humid bathroom environment, the sand had a habit of getting stuck.As you will notice, there isn’t an obvious charging socket or USB connector built into the handle of the quip toothbrush. The Brusheez comes as a set, with a bulky brush stand and attached sand timer (the brush itself doesn’t have a built-in timer). We found that the Quip and Sonicare brush heads attached more securely, because you have to physically jam the brush head onto the brush body. Additionally, if you attach the head but forget to give it a quarter turn, it can pop off easily. To attach and detach it, you give the brush head a quarter turn, but it was easy to accidentally turn the brush head while using it, which frees the head to pop off.
The Brusheez brush head can also pop off easily.
But our 3-year-old tester managed to break the brush head completely during normal use (it’s likely she bit down slightly on the head, which is “normal use” for that age). The Brusheez Kid’s Electronic Toothbrush Set, which runs on two AA batteries, hit many of the marks: It’s smaller than an adult brush and comes with a kid-sized rotating brush head that worked well for our young testers.