• usernamefactory@lemmy.ca
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    5 hours ago

    I don’t brush my teeth after sleeping, either. After breakfast, sure, but first thing in the am? Why?

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      2 hours ago

      For me it started with not breathing well through my noses so my mouth would taste awful when I woke up from being all dry and weird. Then it became an excuse to get my ass out of bed and moving.

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      5 hours ago

      Because your body naturally produces things you need to clean, it’s like 75% of the reason you do it. Eating stuff just speeds up the production of bacteria. Give your breath a smell as you wake up in the morning before you eat anything, it reeks.

      You should brush your teeth in the morning whether you eat breakfast or not.

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        3 hours ago

        The way I always heard it from multiple dentists is “if you want to keep your friends brush in the morning, if you want to keep your teeth brush at night, best is both.”

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          3 hours ago

          Dentist never heard of a mint?

          Also I thought morning brushing was about teeth because most smells are on the tongue not the teeth unless there’d an abscess or something.

          Does everybody brush/scrape their tongue every morning?