# Did you have difficulty adapting to an electric toothbrush?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 30, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-difficulty-adapting-to-an-electric-toothbrush/826899 "2018-12-30T03:22:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-difficulty-adapting-to-an-electric-toothbrush/826899/21 "2018-12-31T14:36:22Z")

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> [@Voyager](#):
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> When did battery powered brushes come in? I never noticed them before, and now they seem to be all over the place.

Wait, they have electric toothbrushes that plug into the wall? That’s seems scary.

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**Author:** ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-difficulty-adapting-to-an-electric-toothbrush/826899/22 "2018-12-31T17:34:59Z")

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The battery charge on my Sonicare will last at least a couple weeks (assuming I top it up before I go).

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-difficulty-adapting-to-an-electric-toothbrush/826899/23 "2018-12-31T19:42:06Z")

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> [@Hermitian](#):
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> Wait, they have electric toothbrushes that plug into the wall? That’s seems scary.

You mean you never read “Tom Swift and His Electric Toothbrush?”

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**Author:** ![Alexis\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@Alexis\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alexis_1)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-have-difficulty-adapting-to-an-electric-toothbrush/826899/24 "2018-12-31T21:55:04Z")

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I had braces for two years and was given an electric toothbrush to use. I didn’t like it tbh.

When I got them off just a few months ago I was so happy to use a manual toothbrush.

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