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4.0 out of 5 stars
Not worth extra money - get ProfessionalCare 5000 instead, January 11, 2006
This review is from: Oral-B Triumph Professional Care 9400 Power Toothbrush (Health and Beauty)
Summary: Just buy the cheapest Oral-B ProfessionalCare model you can find on the market and you will get all of the wonderful teeth cleaning the reviewers here have been raving about without wasting money on useless features.
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I bought this one after the unreplaceable battery on my Oral B 3d Excel (older equivalent of the ProfessionalCare 5000) failed on me. After comparing the two, I have decided that the cheapest ProfessionalCare model they offer which costs half the price had all the features I really needed.
The key features for me are:
* Rechargeable - everything from ProfessionalCare 5000 on up is rechargeable
* High speed 3d oscilations - ALL of their models from the ProfessionalCare 5000 on up have the same rotating speed and they all do side to side and front to back movents!
* Needs to supports all brush heads - Aside from their incompatible sonic line, all their brushes support all their brush heads. I bought the Triumph mainly because I liked the idea of their FlossAction head, and on their web site they claim that it only works with the Triumph. THIS IS INCORRECT. The floss action head works with all their models!!!!!! They claim the triumph brush detects a "smart chip" in the flossaction head that causes it to modify the way the motor works, but all it does is restrict you to the most powerful setting. I tried the Flossaction head on my cheaper 3d excel and it works just fine.
All the other features of the triumph are no big deal - the display screen to tell you the charge, etc. All that stuff is not worth paying twice the price to me.
Features they tout as unique to the Triumph that I don't care about:
* Multiple cleaning speeds - unless you have incredibly sensitive gums, you will just use the maximum speed every day.
* LCD display - You can't see it when you are brushing anyway. When you are done it tells you exactly how many minutes you brushed. Who cares about that? The pulse warning after 2 minutes during the brushing (on all their models) tells you that anyway. And it's pretty easy to remember to stick the thing in the charger once a week... you don't need an LCD display with the exact charge. That's overkill.
*FlossAction support - This is a great brush head but as I said above, this works in all their models even though they claim it does not.
They need to justify a higher price so they just packed on features that don't mean much... my advice is just to get the cheapest ProfessionalCare brush model you can find and it will be just as good.
On top of all this, the Triumph display screen requires a bigger battery and is heavier, which is a slight annoyance.
Go to oralb dot com website where they do a comparison of the features of all their models. Keep in mind that their statement that the Flossaction only works on the triumph is incorrect.
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98 of 98 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Triumph or Sonicare Elite, February 26, 2006
This review is from: Oral-B Triumph Professional Care 9400 Power Toothbrush (Health and Beauty)
I have both the Sonicare Elite and the Triumph. Both do an excellent job of cleaning your teeth. The Sonicare has more side to side action while the Triumph has a more circular motion. The Sonicare beeps at you to move every thirty seconds, the Triump makes a motor sound prompting the same action. Both have excellent grips and its easy to change the brushes. And both have good battery life, though I'd give a small edge to the Triumph.
I really like my Triumph because it holds its charge well and the brush motion feels more like what the dental hygenist uses. Some reviews comment that the brush is too noisey -- give me a break. Both the Sonicare and the Triump make noise appropriate to the task at hand.
The best part of these two brushes is that they make you brush for two minutes. The Sonicare asks you to get a new brush every 6 months, the Triumph every 3 months. Replacement heads for the Triumph are less expensive.
If you asked me which brush I'd grab for a trip, my preference would be the Triumph, But, if I grabbed the Sonicare by mistake, all would be well.
Either one does a great job.
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139 of 143 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
THE BEST TOOTHBRUSH OUT THERE, June 6, 2007
This review is from: Oral-B Triumph Professional Care 9400 Power Toothbrush (Health and Beauty)
I'm an RDH and *this* is the recommend power toothbrush we sell (at no commission and for very little profit) in our office. It is better than the lower priced versions of the other Oral-B power brushes, though I would heartily recommend most Oral-B products because of their superior quality and longevity.
The Triumph is different. Yes, they all have two minute timers, but the Triumph skips every 30 seconds so you get to divide your mouth equally into four parts. And while the floss head does work on different models it doesn't work as effectively, still, I urge my patients to switch over to using the Triumph brush heads regardless of the model they own. The rubber tips on the floss head brush is extremely effective at getting in-between the teeth.
I usually recommend the slower mode but you do have even more than those two options, you also have a massage (for your gums)and a polishing (which is very valuable when you are in the process of bleaching your teeth.) So, that extra brush head really is useful!
It is also terribly easy (read the manual!!) to program the Triumph to notify you when it is time to change the main brush head and this applies to more than one person. The device knows the difference between the two (or three, ect.) My only suggestion (with any power toothbrush more than one person is using) is too write your name in permant ink on the brush itself. The color rings just never stay on.
Having been a hygienist for over 25 years and used practically every power toothbrush on the market, this is something I was very excited to share with my patients. It is by far the most effective and versatile power toothbrush I've ever utilized and couldn't possibly be a greater advocate for this product.
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