Usmile Y10 Pro sonic electric toothbrush review

The Y10 Professional has rather a lot going for it – particularly at this worth level. It packs in a digital show, 4 cleansing modes, an extended battery life, USB charging and a brush head that vibrates between 31,000 and 38,000 occasions per minute. However a few of its options work higher than others.

Right here’s what we thought.

Design and construct

• Digital show
• Wider and longer than a mean electrical toothbrush
• Use straight from the field

Within the field, you’ll get the Usmile Y10 Professional in white with a black two-part digital show, a consumer handbook, two toothbrush heads in clear plastic containers, and a USB cable. Some containers include 4 toothbrush heads, so verify what you’re getting before you purchase.

The battery is charged earlier than leaving the manufacturing unit, so you should utilize the Usmile straight from the field. You merely open a toothbrush head, click on it onto the toothbrush physique, and away you go.

Apparently, the Usmile is longer than different sonic toothbrushes: 25cm from the highest of the comb to the bottom, relatively than the extra widespread 22-24cm, and we reckon that’s in all probability all the way down to the USB charging port within the backside.

The primary shaft can be rounder, with a diameter of two.5cm. All which means that your hand is a bit additional away out of your face if you end up brushing your enamel. Plus, the Y10 Professional is way from a slim toothbrush. Okay, it’s not going to overwhelm your hand, however some folks would possibly desire one thing extra lithe.

The comb head itself is 2cm lengthy and roughly 9mm vast with the bristles reduce right into a trough form in the midst of the pinnacle. The bristles will fade over three months to remind you to alter your brush head.  

There are two buttons on the entrance of the toothbrush: an On/Off key beneath the digital show, and one other white perform button beneath that to cycle by the cleansing modes. The entire thing is IPX8 waterproof, so that you’re protected to make use of it within the tub or bathe.

Efficiency and options

• No charger – direct USB charging
• 4 cleansing modes
• Timer and strain sensor

One advantage of the Y10 Professional is that you just cost it through USB immediately into the underside of the toothbrush: there’s no want for a charging base. You merely flick up the rubberised cap on the underside of the toothbrush, plug within the equipped USB cable, plug the opposite finish right into a charger, and also you’re achieved.

This implies much less rest room muddle, however it’s one thing to remember should you like a devoted stand in your brush: the Y10 Professional doesn’t include one.

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Usmile says you’ll be able to stand up to 6 months of use from a totally charged battery (brushing twice every day for 2 minutes a time), and charging takes roughly 4 to 5 hours. When the battery is low, the charging icon will seem on the good display to immediate you to behave. 

The Y10 Professional is a quite simple toothbrush to make use of. You turn it on, select your cleansing mode, and brush your enamel. Nevertheless, there’s rather a lot happening by way of suggestions and responsiveness, though we didn’t discover all of it helpful.

There are 4 cleansing modes: good, clear, white and smooth.

The good mode makes use of a gyroscope sensor and place recognition inside the comb to alter the motion and vibration, which we skilled as a change within the oscillation of the comb head.

The clear mode is a regular average strain clear. The white mode cleans with extra depth, and the smooth mode with much less.

There’s a strain indicator, which we predict is a fairly necessary function in an electrical toothbrush. If you happen to apply an excessive amount of strain, the indicator on the again of the comb will gentle up in purple. Nevertheless, we discovered that you just needed to apply rather a lot of strain for that to occur, so we’re not totally satisfied of its usefulness. 

The toothbrush offers you a vibration reminder each 30 seconds to immediate you to maneuver onto the subsequent quadrant of your mouth, and there’s additionally a timer.

Once you’ve completed cleansing your enamel and change the comb off, you’ll additionally get brushing suggestions. It’ll let you know the time you spent brushing and two brushing protection percentages. There’s additionally a suggestions message, which we generally discovered perplexing.

We weren’t certain what the 2 brushing percentages meant, and the suggestions messages generally is a bit opaque. One merely says “want improve” so we suspect one thing was misplaced in translation there.

Nonetheless, we discovered that the Y10 Professional gave enamel a persistently good and deep clear.

Worth and availability

Within the US, the Usmile Y10 Professional is out there direct from Usmile itself, or from Amazon for $109.90.

Substitute brush heads are additionally accessible from Usmile for $24.99 for a pack of 4.

On the time of writing, the Y10 Professional just isn’t but accessible within the UK. Nevertheless, you may get the Usmile Y1S Roman Column brush from Amazon UK for below £50. It is available in quite a lot of fetching colors with a journey case and two brush heads. Yow will discover out extra about this brush in our round-up of the perfect funds electrical toothbrushes.

Verdict

The Y10 Professional has the perfect battery lifetime of the brushes we’ve examined, plus USB charging, and a timer. Nevertheless, we don’t assume the strain sensor is delicate sufficient and we discovered brushing suggestions to be complicated relatively than helpful.

Nonetheless, the Y10 Professional does what it’s speculated to do – it provides your enamel a superb clear and it does it for a good worth.

For extra electrical toothbrush choices, take a look at our round-up of the perfect electrical toothbrushes we’ve examined.