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When do you brush your teeth? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by BananaPeal to c/[email protected]

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It is advised to brush your teeth at least twice a day, but when? Just before bed is a gimme because you're about to lie mostly still for 6+ hours. Best to not leave food particles to fester.

What's the best time for an earlier brushing? After breakfast? After lunch? After work/school?

Plus, what's up with TV and movies having breakfast scenes where they get up and head right out the door? Did they already brush and now they're going to leave food to fester all day? Eww.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

After breakfast than floss+brush before bed. Before breakfast doesn't make sense to me because you're brushing twice when you haven't eaten anything.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might seem counterintuitive at first pass, but brushing Before breakfast IS much better.

There's a couple of reasons for this. One thing being that you want to wash out the bacteria that have multiplied overnight - these are the ones that give you the morning stinkbreath, and that sticky coating you feel on your teeth.

Additionally, when you eat you expose your teeth to acids that weaken and softens your enamel for a while. Brushing the weakened enamel weakens the enamel over time. Brushing before on the other hand helps protect your teeth from said acids, reducing this weakening effect.

That said, brushing after you've eaten is still better than not brushing at all.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

That makes sense. I can't say I'll change, purely because I don't want to eat breakfast with the taste of toothpaste in my mouth, but it's good to know.

[–] BananaPeal 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's my thought.