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An electric toothbrush and floss. Brushing with a regular toothbrush doesn’t give me the clean/fresh feeling my electric toothbrush does. The model I have was maybe $25 or $30.

Using the electric toothbrush and flossing before bed every night, I feel like in my morning my mouth actually still feels fine. Of course I would never start my day without brushing, but my mouth doesn’t feel icky when I wake up in the morning. Sorry if that’s TMI.



A plastic tongue scraper. Just brushing my teeth didn't provide the satisfactory result until I started to also brush my tongue. And the scraper does a much better job of it.


Brushing after breakfast, rather than before, is recommended for maximum cleanness.

If you only brush once a day, brush last thing before bed.


I remember hearing a long time ago that brushing before eating is better. Sugar reacts with plaque to form acids and brushing temporarily removes plaque. So eating straight after brushing doesn't really do anything.


I've heard this also but it doesn't make much sense to me. If you brush after you eat, wouldn't it remove the plaque, sugar, and any possible acid? Any plaque that remains will have little to nothing to eat.

If you brush before eating, there will still be some plaque left and once you eat there should be copious amounts of sugar and food for it to snack on and quickly multiply + produce acid.


The way I understood it the acids in the food make the enamel softer. Brushing while the enamel is softened can result in brushing away the outermost layer of enamel. Waiting until 45-60 minutes supposedly allows the saliva to normalize the pH level so that the enamel is at full strength again.


Brushing after you eat is not recommended because you're a lot more likely to damage your enamel that way, especially if you've eaten anything acidic.

Acidic foods temporarily weaken your enamel to the point that even light brushing can damage it.


It’s the other way around. Food doesn’t make your teeth bad. It’s bacteria in your mouth, eating your food and shitting out enzymes that soften and damage your teeth. So before you eat, make sure those bacteria are wiped away by brushing your teeth.

If you brush immediately after eating, you’re partially brushing their enzyme shit into your teeth…


It is, however, disgusting.


I'm the opposite: I think it's disgusting people brush before breakfast, just to dirty their mouth right up again with breakfast and walk around un-brushed afterward


Do you brush your teeth after lunch?


Yes, why wouldn't I? I brush at least 2-3 a day, with flossing, after every meal. I've never understood people who can't afford 6 minutes a day to properly care for one of the most important parts of our bodies (ie teeth).


I was interested in a Waterpik but I thought it would be too difficult to maintain. I found out about both a toothbrush and an oral irrigator that you hook up to your shower which are really cool.

There are also some tricks for oral hygiene that you don't get traditionally or when you go to the store for toothpaste. You can try putting a drop of Dragon's Blood on the toothbrush or brush with a bit of ozonated oil to help gum issues.


I purchased a generic water flosser from Amazon. Works great. I put an ounce or two of mouthwash in the reservoir when I fill it and I occasionally clean it by washing the reservoir. Very simple to maintain and an extremely effective oral hygiene tool. I have many teeth that are very close together and floss just breaks constantly (I can use those floss tools but don't like throwing them out each time).


Alright I'll bite, what brand does both? And more importantly, what in the world is Dragon Blood in this context?


Croton lechleri! It's been used traditionally for a lot of stuff and the active constituent is in an orphan drug to help GI issues with cancer. It helps wounds of all sorts and gum issues.

You can find the oral irrigator/toothbrush combos for looking for faucet oral irrigator on amazon. Maybe I'd misremembered the shower ones that are harder to find for the combos of both, but they're easy enough to find for a faucet adapter.


What electric floss do you use?




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