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Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ reviews the new Oral-B Pro 5000 Electric Toothbrush with Bluetooth and finds that it's a mixed bag, useful in some situations, but not very useful in others. At least he ends up with clean teeth, however!
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oh
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hey Dave Taylor here in my bathroom
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cleaning my teeth to show you the new
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oralb Pro Series 5000 toothbrush sorry
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electric toothbrush with Bluetooth
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Bluetooth seriously yes it's a
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toothbrush with Bluetooth and if you
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look I have an app and the app shows me
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how I'm doing so if I let it run and
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I'll just do this without actually
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Towing my teeth and then you look the
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app will show you how long I'm cleaning
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my teeth so I guess that's useful um
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turns out that I have the previous
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generation of this very same electric
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toothbrush which is
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the Pro Series 5000 without Bluetooth
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what this old one had instead is it had
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its own little display which you can see
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stuck here let me zoom in just for for a
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second so you can see what's going on
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and it also has a timer and it also has
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a pressure sensor feedback system so if
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you're cleaning your teeth too hard it
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does the unhappy face both of these are
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pretty darn expensive toothbrushes
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they're about 110 bucks for the old
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school one with the separate display and
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about 125 bucks for the one with the
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Bluetooth so are they worth it well the
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older one is definitely a favorite and I
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really like that like every 30 seconds
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it has like a 1 second stall in the
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vibration so you can time quadrants in
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your mouth um but none of them actually
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have what I guess you could call like
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location sensors so if I spend the
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entire time just cleaning one tooth I
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get my 2 minutes in I get the smiley
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face I get the gold star all good
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meanwhile the rest of my mouth isn't
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very clean um and so on the new
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bluetooth app on this
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one the app actually lets you customize
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what areas you want to clean more but it
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doesn't actually know whether you do
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them or not so kind of useful but I kind
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of actually have to say I like the older
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one and I'm not sure it's worth the 15
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bucks to have to have my phone in the
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bathroom when I'm cleaning my teeth
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every time now the other thing to think
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about is with children and of course if
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your kids are like my kids then they'll
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tell you they've cleaned their teeth but
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they
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haven't so that's a problem so having
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some sort of toothbrush with it actually
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tracks and logs that's useful and so
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that's where the Bluetooth can really
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shine so what I've been thinking about
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is giving the Bluetooth version to my
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kids not worrying about the app at all
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and letting them clean their teeth and
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then seeing if that would work so that
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then when I put the toothbrush near the
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app it would download previous
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toothbrush incidents or it would connect
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you know throughout the house um that's
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something that's still up for some
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experimentation but I will also note
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that in the older version this display
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doesn't store previous cleanings so you
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sort of have that same issue on both
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there are other smart electric
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toothbrushes coming out this year but
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Oral B Brawn I mean they got a really
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great reputation the the toothbrush that
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we've had we've had for a couple of
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years and it's still rocking and works
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really really well and of course the
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toothbrush heads which pop off these are
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widely available through online and
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local stores so that's nice so each of
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my kids we have different toothbrushes
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we just switch different heads so Oral B
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5000 Pro Series electric toothbrush with
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Bluetooth um that's this one and the
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accompanying app for your phone uh 125
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bucks is it worth it you know you might
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want to think through your use case but
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as for me either one of these really
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helps me keep my teeth nice and clean
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and that is definitely worth not having
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to go to the dentist and that's worth a
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lot of money so this is Dave Taylor and
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I'm going to get back to cleaning my
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teeth and I'll see you in my next
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