So if you are looking for a decent cleaning but you want a gentler feel, then we recommend the Sensi Ultra Thin. If you like standard brush heads: Oral-B Trizone The American Dental Association recommends softer bristles for 90% of the population. The Sensi Ultra-Thin still gives a good cleaning while being gentler on the teeth and gums than the CrossAction. Through this research and testing, we have helped to narrow down the choices for you. The Best Oral-B Brush Head: CrossAction Round brush head is inspired by dental professional tools for a tooth-by-tooth clean, with specially engineered bristles for optimal tooth coverage To complete the plaque reveal test, multiple testers used Oral-B brushes and after brushing, chewed a plaque reveal pill. This pill then showed how much plaque was left on the teeth. By comparing photos after the tests, we could see which brush heads most effectively swept away plaque.

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We would opt for the CrossAction for our daily clean, but if you want something a little less aggressive, but don’t need the Sensitive brush then this is a good middle option. Oral-B 3D White This is a decent brush that provides good cleaning, but we are not sure how much the yellow flossing bristles actually do. Oral-B Precision Clean In our tests, the iO 7 in combination with the Ultimate Clean brush head did a very good job of removing plaque. It was still not as good as a Sonicare brush, but on par with the best standard Oral-B brushes. It also showed more cleaning action in our corncob/coffee ground test, removing more coffee grounds from the corncob than the Genius X with a CrossAction brush head. Gentle CareOur tests were inconclusive as to whether or not this brush cleans between teeth any better than a standard brush head. It did not do as well in the plaque or lab tests as the CrossAction, but it does provide a slightly gentler cleaning action.

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The CrossAction has angled bristles which seem to be able to clean between teeth better than flat bristles. The softer blue bristles on the outside spread out as you brush cleaning a lot of surface area for the small round head. They also act as indicator bristles to let you know when you need to change your brush head. Like the Cross Action, the bristles are set at an angle, 16 degrees, to provide for a better cleaning. In our test, we found that this brush head cleans as well, but still feels almost as harsh as the Cross Action despite Oral-B’s claims that the iO is gentler than their standard brushes. On its own, the Interspace brush has been touted for doing a nice job on the gum line and between teeth. We would not recommend only using the Interspace brush head, but when combined with a good daily brush like the CrossAction, it will provide some extra cleaning in those hard to reach spaces, especially if you have irregular teeth or gum issues. To find out how well these brush heads cleaned, we performed home tests using plaque reveal pills as well as lab tests cleaning stained surfaces. The idea is that this brush has an oval head with standard bristles combined with four yellow, longer rubber bristles that are supposed to reach between the teeth to dislodge food and other particles. However, even in their product description, Oral-B emphasizes that you should still floss after using this brush head, so it is not a replacement for flossing as the name might suggest.

However, in our toothbrush tests, we did find that sonic brushes, like Sonicare, perform better for people with braces than any Oral-B brushes. Other brush heads Oral-B FlossAction If you have orthodontics, then we recommend the Ortho brush heads. These are the only brush heads we found that will do any cleaning for those with braces. One of our testers had been using an Oral-B brush for over a year, and he had always used the sensitive “SensiThin” because of his sensitive teeth. But once we started testing, he tried different brush heads and noticed a major difference in cleaning between the sensitive brush and the other brushes. He settled on the CrossAction as the Oral-B brush head that cleans the most thoroughly.