Dental Advice faq from Seattle Area Dentist

Yes, it is possible to overbrush and eroded enamel and gum recession is quite common due to this. Every day, I see patients who have spent years brushing with too hard of a bristle brush and caused damage to their gums and teeth over many years of erosion. For this reason, I recommend to almost all of my patients the use of a soft bristled brush. I recommend that your husband check how stiff the bristles of his Oral B brush are and perhaps even bring the brush in to his next dental appointment. If concern about overbrushing exists, perhaps a more moderate schedule of using the Oral B half the time and a soft bristled brush the other half would work.