• Emptiness@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I’m usually more surprised by every tv-show and movie depicting someone brushing their teeth and then rinsing their mouth with water after!? What!?

      • andrej@feddit.org
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        3 hours ago

        It’s how I learned it but it turns out… the most health benefit from tooth paste comes from not rinsing it out. The fluorides do better work that way. Also the main reason why you should brush 3 minutes. No mechanical or cleaning reason. It’s to keep the fluorides on them.

  • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Wait, you guys just wait until your saliva kicks in or something? You can’t just go in dry.

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    15 hours ago

    If you shit in the same room you brush your teeth, you should probably rinse the poop particles off your toothbrush.

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    15 hours ago

    I put it on before, after, and then before putting it in my mouth. Because in the span of those few seconds I can never remember!

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      Yep

      1 - Squeeze paste into mouth so you can sense exactly how much you’re using. 2 - Wet toothbrush (because everyone knows that magically removes anything nasty in the bristles). 3 - Put in mouth and spread paste around and only then switch toothbrush on. 4 - Divide mouth into 8 segments and brush 2 segments at a time till the brush signals 30 second mark. 5 - Get really bored at how long this is taking. 6 - Either tough it out to the 4 stop/starts signalling the end of 2 minutes or give up half way through and brush everything really hard for 5 seconds.