It was about 10 years ago that I first purchased a Sonicare toothbrush for myself. Wow has it really been that long? Yes, actually it was. I remember purchasing it on my dentist’s recommendation. Right away I loved it. My teeth and mouth felt…we…so clean afterward. My husband had already owned a Sonicare toothbrush.
Because I’ve loved using my Sonicare toothbrush for all these years, I was excited when I found out that they made a toothbrush for kids! I immediately wanted to get one for my 6 year old.
I think because he has grown up seeing my husband and I use our Sonicare toothbrushes, our son was excited to get one of his own. Plus it came in fun designs. Designs? Yes, the child can choose which front to paste on the toothbrush. The base of the toothbrush itself is red and the child can choose either the yellow front with red, blue green and black dots or navy blue with red, yellow green and blue dots or a black one with lots of dots in the above colors.
Unlike our toothbrushes, his plays music when it’s time to move from one section of brushing onto the next. Ours merely buzzes. He faithfully has used it twice a day. He prefers the gentler setting. There’s a choice of two settings to use. It is easy to select the choice. It’s a large red button that is friendly for smaller hands much like the on/off button itself.
Since he is only 6 we went with the smaller toothbrush head. It came with one for 4+ and one for 7+. The smaller one has worked out fine.
The only drawback to this toothbrush is that it did cause him to drool a lot of toothpaste at the beginning as he got used to using it. Also, we had to remind him to keep brushing on the designated section until he heard the music.
Overall though a great product from Sonicare! You can look for Sonicare For Kids at Wal-Marts nationwide beginning on May 3rd. It is also currently available at Amazon.com and Target.
I wrote this review while participating in a blog tour campaign by Mom Central on behalf of Sonicare and received a free Sonicare For Kids toothbrush to facilitate my review.”