zephyrWhy do people brush their teeth first thing in the morning?
gibmiserFor me it’s because my mouth tastes terrible and I want that gone asap
Ey ich frag doch nurThat might be the reason why my breakfast is coffee&cigarettes
That makes it worse!
But it covers the morning mouth stool
Please brush your teeth before drinking your morning coffees
Wouldnt your breakfast over power the taste?
Maybe, but I’d have to wait foe breakfast and I want the taste out of my mouth immediately
Do you wash your teeth before going to bed? Not to be rude, just wondering cause I have never woke up with bad breath
Yep, every night. I think there is a huge degree of variance in oral health from person to person that people don’t realize. My teeth are garbage. My friend who drank 2 liters of mountain dew daily and didnt brush his teeth for years has never had a cavity.
I hate the taste of coffee with toothpaste residue in my mouth, so I never brush before breakfast.
LazaroFilmI use Therabreath toothpaste. It doesn’t have that crap mint taste and doesn’t have the chemicals that makes food (especially orange juice) taste like crap. Also it really works to keep your breath nice without that fake disgusting flavor.
I’m very interested in trying out some new toothpastes. I’ll have to give this a try! Thanks!
Brush, shower, get ready, breakfast
Yeah morning breath is fucking rank.
I want that gone before I go to work. I have breakfast at work at like 9am after starting at 7am. I aint waiting 2.5 hours to brush them bad boys.
xigoiFor me, just drinking some water gets rid of that.
TheAndrewBrownI’ve read that brushing your teeth actually helps protect your teeth from food and sugars you consume throughout the day. So eating beforehand bypasses that protection (unless you ask brush at night, which I imagine would be good enohgh).
my toothpaste says 24h protection so if brushing once a day isn't good enough I'll be suing someone for my dentures.
You should wait about 30min after eating something acidic: …columbia.edu/…/brushing-immediately-after-meals-… . Some people don’t have time to wait. Myself I don’t eat breakfast at home, I brush my teeth, go to work and eat when I arrive.
Because that is better for your teeth. Talk to your dentist about it. healthline.com/…/should-you-brush-your-teeth-befo…
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Not sure about this particular site, but in my experience with sites that don’t have full time web developers on staff and only get a small percentage of their traffic from the UK/EU/EEA, complying is simply cost prohibitive since it will require a significant development budget without much payback, so by law, they are forced to block access to their site in affected countries.
How does it take too much work to just not spy on people? Or at least not spy on people in the EU, which the site already can detect so it shouldn’t be a problem. In fact, it would probably be less work than making the site not work for such people.
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You’re not wrong. I’m on my phone but if you can, please provide another source. Tbh I’ve just got the cookie modal blocked with ublock and the cookies autodelete
The article doesn’t back up your statement.
What it does say is that:
- brushing teeth regularly is important
- brushing teeth when enamel is weakened by acidity is destructive
- breakfasts foods tend to be acidic (well, acidity raises after a meal in general)
And with this it reaches the conclusion that brushing your teeth before breakfast is safer than brushing right afterwards, and is more likely to become a routine than if you wait 30-60 minutes after your first meal. It even ends up with:
Brushing in the morning, whenever you’re able to do it, is still better than skipping brushing your teeth at all.
And if you’re from a country where visiting a dentist is affordable, you have probably heard an additional advice - visit a dentist for a checkup and a professional cleaning at least twice a year.
brushing teeth when enamel is weakened by acidity is destructive breakfasts foods tend to be acidic (well, acidity raises after a meal in general)
And with this it reaches the conclusion that brushing your teeth before breakfast is safer than brushing right afterwards
This is what my point is. What are you arguing?
I talked to my dentist about this, actually.
His conclusion was: preferably brush after breakfast, yes it’s ideal to wait For 30-60 mins but that rarely happens so just do it when you can after it’s not that big a deal
I’m summarizing, of course. But that was the gist of it
My dentist says that if that 30 min isn’t there, it’s better to do it before. Probably it comes down to any tooth brushing is better than none
I find minty toothpaste makes it a lot more difficult to eat afterwards. My grandad used to work in Egypt and he’d bring the orange toothpaste home and it was much easier to wake up, brush then eat using that stuff.
I don’t usually eat breakfast and I try to be vigilant about brushing my teeth, so doing it first thing is pretty natural for me.
TheInsane42I brush before the shower, as usually my wife is in the shower then. She brushes after her shower, when I’m in there. BTW we both do that after breakfast.
Brushing before breakfast can be done against the morning smell, but when you brushed before going to bad, there shouldn’t be anything on or between your teeth.
Shower Brushers mater race
Someone call an ambulance! This person is having a stroke!
that too ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
PreciousDeclarationYeah, I do it the same way as you. I eat breakfast first, then brush my teeth.
I do the same.
I wear a night guard for tooth grinding and I take a sublingual sleeping pill every night, so my mouth feels kind of mulchy after I get up. Also I get first shower and I best hustle through getting ready or my husband will be in there shitting for thirty minutes and I’ll be late for work.
open_worldCuz my mouth and throat feel disgusting in the morning. Eating or drinking right after brushing doesn’t bother me either.
Interesting, it's kind of the other way around for me! I wake up ready for food. After brushing, my taste buds are knocked off by the toothpaste and I loose all apetite.
Cloudless ☼Because acid in your breakfast can damage your the enamel of your teeth when you brush. (I’m not a dentist but that’s what I found from most health-related websites.)
Who the fuck eats acid for breakfast?
theodewereHunter S. Thompson i guess
Orange juice is a pretty common breakfast drink.
Or did you mean acid of the lysergic variety? That won’t damage your teeth, though you’ll have an interesting work day
Just a heads up that Healthline, although it largely provides accurate information, is also known to pedal a lot of quackery.
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I’ve seen articles and dentist recommendations both ways. But the consensus seems to lean towards after. You want the fluoride to sit on the teeth and get absorbed as much as possible. This should provide a larger benefit than the damage of brushing when your teeth are, and not brushing means just leaving that gunk on the teeth even longer to mess them up more. But yeah, I guess you aren’t supposed to wash your mouth out after brushing or mouthwash, and avoid eating/drinking for about 30 minutes. Just try and spit it out as best you can, that’s how I’ve done it for years, takes a little getting used to but isn’t something I notice anymore.
Afaik, brushing your teeth doesn’t weaken the enamel or anything like that, or at least it shouldn’t. When brushing it’s not actually the bristles that are supposed to be doing most of the work, it’s the toothpaste which acts as polishing paste (it has tiny little micro abrasive particles or something like that). So if a dentist ever asks you what kind of toothbrush you use, soft, medium, or hard bristles, if you answer anything other than soft they’re probably going to recommend switching to soft bristles. Medium and hard bristles can damage the gums and with hard enough brushing overtime can be macro-abrasive and wear away your teeth. Better to use soft bristles and let the toothpaste do the polishing work.
The argument I’ve seen, that they seemed to be referencing, is that no matter how soft the bristles, brushing when there’s acid from our food and byproduct of the bacteria on your teeth sharing your meal, then even soft bristles can damage the enamel because the surface is temporarily weakened.
I guess that makes some sense. I think the counter argument to that may be that our teeth are constantly in a demineralization demineralization cycle anyways, so it’s better to brush after breakfast to ensure that until next you eat you’ve got no debris left for bacteria to eat and make acid and to boost remineralization.
Yeah, that seems to be the more common take, and the one that resonates with me. But apparently it’s still largely up for debate.
you know how your teeth feel smooth after you brush? that smoothness helps things like coffee not stick to them, in turn helps avoid stains
brushing before coffee is legit the thing to do
Packopus@SuperRecording I've always been told the opposite. As long as you brush soon after you actually prevent stains. Otherwise, If you brush beforehand, always make sure to at least rinse with water to prevent stains. Brushing beforehand, by itself, does nothing to prevent stains.
Brushing immediately after anything acidic,like coffee, is highly damaging to the enamel of your teeth.
FartsWithAnAccentBecause it’s gross and if I eat all that nasty shit gets rubbed off onto my food. I also don’t eat breakfast right away so there’s time for the toothpaste taste to wear off before I eat.
VlynBecause you have to wait 30 minutes after eating before you brush your teeth or you damage them. I don’t have that time.
So I rather brush first, then shower, then make breakfast.
🇨🅾️🇰🅰️N🇪Coffee, weed, take a dump, breakfast, brush my teeth take my vitamins etc, rub one out, shower.
I don't eat breakfast.
I’m in (hopefully the same boat) with toothbrushing for breakfast. If I eat in the morning I feel terrible.