Recommended brush for sensitive gums

[Dean09199]

Hello, I have a question regarding brushes... Both me and my wife have gingivitis (as we were told by our dentist). When we went for scalling (deep cleaning), my wife had a lot of bleeding and red gums. We did some treatments, changed paste and etc and after an year we again went to the same dentist for cleaning. She said we have done very good job and her gums weren't red anymore and had normal color and I can also confirm this, but problem I have with this dentist is that, she recommended us medium toothbrush instead of soft. She recommended on our first first (year ago) and she did same now. I told her that we were using soft brushes recently and we were happy with it. She told us that 'research' found out that people who use soft brushes prone more for gum receding than people that use medium brushes and told us that we need to use medium brushes. So, again, after cleaning we bough those medium brushes, but it clearly feels more aggressive on our gums and not as comfortable as our previous soft brushes. Then I decided to check in the Internet about brushes and so far, all the websites I saw, they all say that soft brushes work almost as good as medium brushes, but they do less damage to gums than medium brushes and they also say that medium brushes do more damage to gums and considering we had problem with gums, I think we should avoid medium brushes, but our dentist told us otherwise. Now, I feel confused. I think she's wrong. What you folks think about it?

 

[Gordon]

The firmness of the brush is less important than how well the bristle ends are finished, if they're rough then they can cause some abrasion damage.

Electric brushes will prevent one from using too much force when brushing, which is also a factor in abrasion damage.

For what it's worth, 99% of dentists in my experience use Oral B brushes, the remainder mostly use Sensodyne ones.