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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah that’s my thought.
Better to brush after getting up to remove any bacteria and plaque buildup. And then right before bed, floss+brush.
I brush pretty much as soon as I get up and right before I go to bed.
Before bed and before breakfast. Bacteria grow in your mouth during your sleep, so it’s best to keep them low when you start sleeping, and kill them again before you swallow them with breakfast.
After my morning coffee to try and reduce coffee staining teeth
Also 100% recommend water flossers, they’re a game changer cuz I was really bad about flossing normally
I ermm… only brush in the morning, after I had my shower. I know I should brush at least twice and I really wish I had the motivation to do so, but somehow I just find myself in bed without brushing.
But, to make up for it a little, I brush my teeth very meticulously for a minimum of 6 to 8 minutes. I follow intermittent fasting, so my next meal won’t be for another couple of hours.
My dentist is always full of praise during my half yearly checkup so I must be doing something right?My dentist told me it actually takes ~24 hr for plaque to harden up into calculus so not to be too hard on myself if I only manage once a day. I think twice a day is probably best especially if spots are missed, but I rarely manage the morning cause I drink coffee all day and brush after my nightly shower.
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But then you walk around with breakfast breath all day?
After breakfast and/if going out and then before bed.
I brush in the morning, and rinse or floss after I eat anything. I brush when I get home from work, after supper, and before I go to bed.
I used to just brush in the morning and at night, and have a partial to show for it
My dentist says flossing more often than once a week is detrimental.
I brush a while after eating. My roomie brushes before breakfast and before bead.
Most people will say its generally after you eat but I personally believe it should be before and after you sleep (including naps). I noticed that after naps my mouth feels very weird and things taste different but brushing my teeth stops that. Cavities mainly form while you sleep not while you are awake so going about your normal day with dirty teeth isn’t going to harm you even though its a bit gross.
I brush after breakfast in the morning, and before bed. I know you’re supposed to do it before breakfast, but I can’t enjoy food with the disgusting taste of toothpaste in my mouth.
Before bed 99% of the time. If I’m leaving the house then I’ll brush before I do.
First thing after I wake up, very thoroughly with a soft toothbrush. I can’t start my day with gross mouth. Definitely never right after coffee (though I understand the impulse). I never seem to get around to it at night. My dentist seems satisfied. If I leave the house in the evening, I brush before I go out.
Bad teeth run in my family. Most of them had false teeth as adults
Build up of bacteria at night means that if you eat in the morning before brushing there will be more bacteria to break down the food into acid which will break down your teeth.
Ideal is to brush first but also brush after each meal*
*as long as the acidity in your mouth is 5.5pH or less your teeth are being broken down by the acid (which means that brushing would be scrubing them with acid and making it worse) in which case you should wait until your spit (which is a buffer solution) returns your pH to normal. Since most foods are acidic the recommendation is to wait 30 mnutes after eating and then brush. Or you can eat suger free gum right after a meal, this will trick your brain to produce more spit which will return the normal pH faster.
My personal system is like so:
Wake up
Use dental jet floss (water floss)
Brush teeth
After any foods eaten chew gum for 10-30 minutes
Floss
Dental jet (if at home)
If I’m at home and have 30 minutes to wait between mouthwash and brushing then I use mouthwash, wait 30 min then brush, if not then just brushing and if I’m not at home then just mouthwash.
Repeat for as many things as I eat that day.
Before bed:
Floss
Dental jet
Mouthwash
Wait 30 min
Brush
