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When do you brush your teeth?
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this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2023
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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.