How did we as humans get to a point where we need to regularly heavily scrub our teeth with non consumable chemicals AND insert fine strings inbetween every single tooth individually in order for our teeth to not start to crack and decompose to the point of literally turning black and rotten?
How does any other animal on the planet have good teeth without any of that?
Hunter-gatherer elders have perfect teeth. Also, other animals get old enough to die of old age and they still have perfect teeth. Your answer is moronic and you are a midwit.
I brush daily without ((toothpaste)), just with hot water under the shower, no flossing. No cavities despite smoking and heavy drinking. I barely eat or drink sugary stuff (never any candy or soda).
No toothpaste brushing is better than not brushing at all. Have your concerns about fluoride being a mind altering government psyop (it's not), but if you are not brushing with fluoridated toothpaste (which is moronic), you really, REALLY need to floss.
The purpose of fluoride is to remineralize small superfical cavities before they become visible and threatening. Fluoride is helpful in preventing cavities and remineralizing in hard to reach places like between the teeth.
If you aren't using fluoride AND not flossing, you are basically not cleaning in between your teeth, which is literally the second most common area for cavities to start.
I am financially incentivized for you to get
more cavities because as a endodonist, I specialize in root canal. So if you don't listen to me that's ok.
I don't think it's a psyop, I think it's just another unnecessary extra thing you have to buy, with a bunch of fake benefits.
If you brush and then floss, wouldn't the flossing remove the benefit of the toothpaste?
What's your own daily routine?
>I don't think it's a psyop, I think it's just another unnecessary extra thing you have to buy with a bunch of fake benefits
The point of toothpaste is to act as a mild abrasive to scrub the plaque off your teeth better AND deposit fluoride to remineralize small cavities. I cant understate the efficacy of fluoride when used regularly to stop tooth decay. It's definetly not pseudoscience or a waste. It's a medical fact that fluoride saves teeth. It's not fake. You can read the research or you can just go and see the oral health of communities that have fluoridated water vs ones that dont, even after adjusting for all other factors.
>If you brush and then floss, wouldn't the flossing remove the benefit of the toothpaste?
No. Im guessing you mean the fluoride effects and not the scrubbing effects. Can you explain your thought process behind this statement. Im a little lost on why you think this.
>What's your own daily routine?
It goes like this >brush teeth with regular acoustic tooth brush with fluoridated toothpaste >spit and rinse with water >brush tounge >spit and rinse with water >floss >spit and rinse with water >swish mouth with 3% hydrogen peroxide >spit and rinse with water >swish mouth with fluoridated mouth wash >SPIT BUT DO NOT RINSE
This is my routine because i've seen a lot of shit in my job and know a lot of shit. I have reasons for why it's like this, why it's in the order, and what every step is meant to do. But this is too much for the average person and way to exhaustive. Here's what I think a regular person should do in this order.
>Floss >Rinse >Brush Tongue >Rinse >Brush teeth with fluoridated tooth paste >spit but dont rinse
I say do it in this order, because if you rinse the toothpaste out of your mouth, you reduce the fluoride's contact time with your teeth, which hypothetically should reduce efficacy.
But in reality, As long as you brush with fluoride and floss twice a day, you'll be fine.
Do you have literally even one single shred of scientific proof for any claim you make about the causes of dental health problems or the effectiveness of your recommendations? Because I have completely disregarded 100% of those recommendations for literally years at a time and never gotten a single cavity or any other such problem in 20 or so years of having adult teeth.
>water fluorination and it's effects on dental carries (this isn't even talking about the higher concentrations found in tooth paste)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5883469/
https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o774
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259765170_Systemic_effect_of_water_fluoridation_on_dental_caries_prevalence
I'm going to stop here for that because there are HUNDREDS of peer reviewed articles that express fluoridations efficacy in improving a communities oral health.
I actually did research on community fluoridation in dental school as apart of an oral public health research internship.
>fluoride toothpaste specific meta-study analyzing 75 publications.
https://www.nature.com/articles/6400176
Your dataset is literally n=1. The one thing about dentistry, is that most of this shit is 100% preventable. People know that brushing twice a day, flossing, and not doing drugs is LITERALLY all you need to do to avoid cavities 99.99% of the time. It makes me so angry seeing people spend thousands of dollars bankrupting themselves because they wouldn't listen
That first one actually suggests that too much fluoride will frick your teeth up. Pic related. The authors point out that there's a sweet spot of water fluoridation levels. That would suggest no toothpaste anons brushing with just water are on the right track, since their water is probably fluoridated and adding more might bring it up to dangerous levels. None of these though mention the actual recommendations dentists make to patients, such as coming in for a cleaning every six months, or brushing twice a day, etc., only the more general public health recommendation to fluoridate water, which frankly, I'll give you. No one was talking about that until you brought it up.
9 months ago
Anonymous
We are about to get into a big dicussion about localized applications of fluoride, fluorosis, and daily average fluoride intakes from all sources. I would rather email you about this because I have to go to sleep because I have work tmrw. If i gave you my proton mail, would you talk about this over email?
9 months ago
Anonymous
Nah, I appreciate it, but I'll just say my point is that dental treatments and recommendations are not nearly as well established as dentists tend to represent them to their patients. I like to think that's common sense with most other types of medicine, but for whatever reason dentistry seems to have a certain mystique, maybe from the weird vulnerable position of the patient as the dentist usually talks to him, maybe from the shock images they usually put all over the office and the nagging roasty hygienists, and people would do well to look at it with a little more skepticism. I would still go to a dentist if my pet bird's teeth started rotting out of his head and his antibiotics weren't working though.
And what about the evidence showing it makes you slightly moronic? Does the municipal water need neurotoxins in it so the sugar gulping masses dont lose deyre teef?
Paid by chemical corporation that need to dispose their waste products.
There are countries that never fluridate, there are ones that did. In all of them there was a decrease of cavities. No correlation netween the use of fluoride.
All those studies you have mention say "we have less cavities than when we weren't fluoridating 20 years ago". And ckmoletely ignore that almost all regions on earth have less cavities than they used to 20 years ago.
I dont care that you are basically participating in every risk factor that leads to total dentition loss, but dont act like the shit we know about how to prevent it isnt real.
I have started using pic rel instead of the ones with bristles since my teeth are close together and these don't bend under pressure. What is the difference? are they worse?
Also what is the difference between flossing every day and every other day cos sometimes I forget but feel like it shouldn't make much difference?
There are many alternative toothpastes that remineralize out emale witgout any fluoride. Only morons use fluoridated toothpast today.
I wonder if they are morons because they use fluoride or they were morons to begin with
I brush daily without ((toothpaste)), just with hot water under the shower, no flossing. No cavities despite smoking and heavy drinking. I barely eat or drink sugary stuff (never any candy or soda).
When we started eating food that fricked up our teeth, and when our lifespans started exceeding the useful lives of our teeth >why do wild animals not have dental issues
They do, but they tend to wear their teeth out or break them rather than get holes in their teeth
White people (real ones) lack the ENAM polymorphism. This means calcium instead goes to the brain. Black people generally can drink 2 liters of soda a day, never brush their teeth, eat candy and never have a cavity if they weren't calcium deficient growing up. The white man picked brains over bones. Simple as that.
sugar and other shitty components of modern diet
my teeth are fricked from years of drinking soda, if I didn't stop I'd probably not have any left
once I stopped(and stopped having sugar in my coffee) my cavities stopped getting worse
AMA
>t. Dentist (Endo)
[...]
No toothpaste brushing is better than not brushing at all. Have your concerns about fluoride being a mind altering government psyop (it's not), but if you are not brushing with fluoridated toothpaste (which is moronic), you really, REALLY need to floss.
The purpose of fluoride is to remineralize small superfical cavities before they become visible and threatening. Fluoride is helpful in preventing cavities and remineralizing in hard to reach places like between the teeth.
If you aren't using fluoride AND not flossing, you are basically not cleaning in between your teeth, which is literally the second most common area for cavities to start.
I am financially incentivized for you to get
more cavities because as a endodonist, I specialize in root canal. So if you don't listen to me that's ok.
what is your opinion on water flossers? I got one recently and it seems alright but my gums are still not used to it.
Anon, wisdom teeth exist as an adaptation to the fact that countless generations of humans were losing enough teeth to need 4 more down the line just to survive, let alone be comfortable. We don't need to floss, brush, and go to the dentist. We do it to not suffer like we used to. >How does any other animal on the planet have good teeth without any of that?
Because animals evolved to rely on teeth to survive, unlike humans. If a wolf loses it's teeth, it can no longer kill or chew and dies. If a herbivore loses its teeth, it can no longer chew and dies. If a human loses its teeth, it uses tools and/or alternative cooking methods to come up with food that does not require chewing with teeth.
You're thinking of it wrong. We're not the only animal with bad teeth. We're the only animal with bad teeth that managed to survive this long.
Primitive tribes don't have any issues you have described. The answer is that they aren't deficient in d3, k2mk7, boron, magnesium, etc. And they don't eat refined shit like we do.
I supplement d3, boron, k2mk7, magnesium, don't eat sweets, use apagard toothpaste only once a day, don't floss and had zero cavities for 7 years sonce I started doing all that.
Wiggle it around, clean the floss in between teeth (so that you aren't putting gunk you just took out right back in), and if you want, you can also put toothpaste on the floss so you can get fluoride better in between the teeth.
Look up a YouTube video. You're supposed to scrape the sides and slightly under the gums of both teeth around each gap. Gently pull the floss down along one tooth, pull sideways against it, and pull/scrape upwards. Repeat with the other tooth, then proceed with the other gaps.
Feels so good.
I always thought pain meant I was doing it right until they told me they're clean but they can tell I'm flossing so hard it's getting close to the bone.
no you just pop it in and out. that's how your dentist should do it if he has ever cleaned your teeth. you don't want to wear down the gums.
>I don't think it's a psyop, I think it's just another unnecessary extra thing you have to buy with a bunch of fake benefits
The point of toothpaste is to act as a mild abrasive to scrub the plaque off your teeth better AND deposit fluoride to remineralize small cavities. I cant understate the efficacy of fluoride when used regularly to stop tooth decay. It's definetly not pseudoscience or a waste. It's a medical fact that fluoride saves teeth. It's not fake. You can read the research or you can just go and see the oral health of communities that have fluoridated water vs ones that dont, even after adjusting for all other factors.
>If you brush and then floss, wouldn't the flossing remove the benefit of the toothpaste?
No. Im guessing you mean the fluoride effects and not the scrubbing effects. Can you explain your thought process behind this statement. Im a little lost on why you think this.
>What's your own daily routine?
It goes like this >brush teeth with regular acoustic tooth brush with fluoridated toothpaste >spit and rinse with water >brush tounge >spit and rinse with water >floss >spit and rinse with water >swish mouth with 3% hydrogen peroxide >spit and rinse with water >swish mouth with fluoridated mouth wash >SPIT BUT DO NOT RINSE
This is my routine because i've seen a lot of shit in my job and know a lot of shit. I have reasons for why it's like this, why it's in the order, and what every step is meant to do. But this is too much for the average person and way to exhaustive. Here's what I think a regular person should do in this order.
>Floss >Rinse >Brush Tongue >Rinse >Brush teeth with fluoridated tooth paste >spit but dont rinse
I say do it in this order, because if you rinse the toothpaste out of your mouth, you reduce the fluoride's contact time with your teeth, which hypothetically should reduce efficacy.
But in reality, As long as you brush with fluoride and floss twice a day, you'll be fine.
>using mouth wash
opinion disregarded.
https://i.imgur.com/eqM2Ryd.png
i just bleed a lot and my teeth feel horrible when i floss. it also seems to space my teeth out and i feel like im ruining them when i do. is this a fricking israelite psyop?
floss more regularly and do it properly. don't rub your gums, just pop it in and out.
I use a waterpik with 50/50 listerine and water. Honestly it's pretty fun and I use it every time I eat meat as it's always when I eat meat that it gets stuck in my tteef.
i just bleed a lot and my teeth feel horrible when i floss. it also seems to space my teeth out and i feel like im ruining them when i do. is this a fricking israelite psyop?
It's the plaque being removed from between your teeth. You're feeling the natural gaps between your teeth that plaque used to fill. That's is what clean teeth feel like.
i just bleed a lot and my teeth feel horrible when i floss. it also seems to space my teeth out and i feel like im ruining them when i do. is this a fricking israelite psyop?
And as for the bleeding, it's most likely because you floss and brush irregularly.
the bleeding will stop as your gums sort their shit out on day 3 or 4
it will also feel less weird after because theyll hopefully be cleaner to start with
i was being a homosexual and would brush my teeth maybe 3 times a week for a solid year awhile ago. now i brush 2x daily, but don't floss. should i go waterpik?
>always had cavities and ahit when I was younger >doctors even pulled 2 teeth when it wasn't needed and hurt like shit >didn't go to the dentist for 12 years after high school >finally went back after freaking out about ignoring it forever >no issues at all >they say it's because I flossed twice a day
But I ironically think that them scratching your teeth with metal every 6 months gave me teeth issues and it's a scam. Not sure still, no issues still after going to them again for 2 years and still floss twice a day.
Yeah if you take care of your teeth you won't get a substantial plaque buildup for a year or two. And even then it will just be a little bit behind your bottom incisors.
Waterpiks are goated. My sister who’s a dentist said that most people floss incorrectly and just end up pushing particles even deeper so she gave me a waterpik to use. It’s crazy how cleaner it feels
>Teeth feel fine >Go to dentist for checkup and clean >Hmm yes anon you have some dark spots in your tooth that you can't see and can't feel. Here's an x-ray you can't read to prove it, we need to get that filled. >Drills holes in my bones, fills it with dentist clag >That'll be $800+tip! Also $150 for that x-ray. >That tooth now hurts forever
Are dentists a scam? The less I go to dentist the longer my teeth go without hurting.
I had something similar happen to me. Stay the frick away from anyone fresh out of dental school. All they know is billable work . Fricking homosexual newbie dentist told me i needed a deep cleaning at least 3 times a year. WTF? The fun part of this: My dental insurer wont pay for deep cleanings without x-rays, etc proving the work was necessary, meaning I would have to pay out of pocket 100% for each one. Oh and dude told me that the condition i needed the deep cleaning for did not show up on xrays and was asymptomatic (i have perfect teeth). Suuuuure thing buddy.
>Go to dentist for regular checkup on tail end of cut (i.e. I haven't had sugar/soda/whatever in a while) >"Wow your teeth look like shit" (paraphrased) >Gives me a bottle of "special" mouthwash to use twice a day or whatever >Go home and use it that day, never open it again >Go back to dentist a few months later while bulking on McDonald's >Tells me my teeth look great and that that mouthwash is doing wonders
My orthodontist was based and jacked though
Its effective and probably a much more important activity than just brushing. In fact i would claim brushing is only minorly useful and that too in only deodorising your mouth
>tfw the dentist and his assistants told me I'm one of the cleanest mouths they work on
It's so disgusting when you get a whiff of tooth decay on someone's breath.
How do people just not take care of their teeth? I'm very thankful to my parents for instilling me with good dental hygiene. I'm concerned about my brother though because I can smell some funk on his breath often and he must know it because he is usually chewing on strong gum.
Never flossed and got 13 cavities and two root canals, true story. -$3500~
Floss regularly but only brush in my car when I go somewhere and haven't had a cavity in 10 years
How did we as humans get to a point where we need to regularly heavily scrub our teeth with non consumable chemicals AND insert fine strings inbetween every single tooth individually in order for our teeth to not start to crack and decompose to the point of literally turning black and rotten?
How does any other animal on the planet have good teeth without any of that?
we eat a lot of objectively terrible shit and most animals eat what they're supposed to (usually)
>medicine has vastly increased our life spans to insane levels
>our diets and lifestyles are terrible for teeth health
the shit we put our teeth through and the amount of time our adult teeth now has to last
Hunter-gatherer elders have perfect teeth. Also, other animals get old enough to die of old age and they still have perfect teeth. Your answer is moronic and you are a midwit.
>Hunter-gatherer elders have perfect teeth
that's because those Black folk died in their 20s
We don't. It's complete quackery.
AMA
>t. Dentist (Endo)
No toothpaste brushing is better than not brushing at all. Have your concerns about fluoride being a mind altering government psyop (it's not), but if you are not brushing with fluoridated toothpaste (which is moronic), you really, REALLY need to floss.
The purpose of fluoride is to remineralize small superfical cavities before they become visible and threatening. Fluoride is helpful in preventing cavities and remineralizing in hard to reach places like between the teeth.
If you aren't using fluoride AND not flossing, you are basically not cleaning in between your teeth, which is literally the second most common area for cavities to start.
I am financially incentivized for you to get
more cavities because as a endodonist, I specialize in root canal. So if you don't listen to me that's ok.
I don't think it's a psyop, I think it's just another unnecessary extra thing you have to buy, with a bunch of fake benefits.
If you brush and then floss, wouldn't the flossing remove the benefit of the toothpaste?
What's your own daily routine?
>I don't think it's a psyop, I think it's just another unnecessary extra thing you have to buy with a bunch of fake benefits
The point of toothpaste is to act as a mild abrasive to scrub the plaque off your teeth better AND deposit fluoride to remineralize small cavities. I cant understate the efficacy of fluoride when used regularly to stop tooth decay. It's definetly not pseudoscience or a waste. It's a medical fact that fluoride saves teeth. It's not fake. You can read the research or you can just go and see the oral health of communities that have fluoridated water vs ones that dont, even after adjusting for all other factors.
>If you brush and then floss, wouldn't the flossing remove the benefit of the toothpaste?
No. Im guessing you mean the fluoride effects and not the scrubbing effects. Can you explain your thought process behind this statement. Im a little lost on why you think this.
>What's your own daily routine?
It goes like this
>brush teeth with regular acoustic tooth brush with fluoridated toothpaste
>spit and rinse with water
>brush tounge
>spit and rinse with water
>floss
>spit and rinse with water
>swish mouth with 3% hydrogen peroxide
>spit and rinse with water
>swish mouth with fluoridated mouth wash
>SPIT BUT DO NOT RINSE
This is my routine because i've seen a lot of shit in my job and know a lot of shit. I have reasons for why it's like this, why it's in the order, and what every step is meant to do. But this is too much for the average person and way to exhaustive. Here's what I think a regular person should do in this order.
>Floss
>Rinse
>Brush Tongue
>Rinse
>Brush teeth with fluoridated tooth paste
>spit but dont rinse
I say do it in this order, because if you rinse the toothpaste out of your mouth, you reduce the fluoride's contact time with your teeth, which hypothetically should reduce efficacy.
But in reality, As long as you brush with fluoride and floss twice a day, you'll be fine.
Is an electric toothbrush fine?
Do you have literally even one single shred of scientific proof for any claim you make about the causes of dental health problems or the effectiveness of your recommendations? Because I have completely disregarded 100% of those recommendations for literally years at a time and never gotten a single cavity or any other such problem in 20 or so years of having adult teeth.
>water fluorination and it's effects on dental carries (this isn't even talking about the higher concentrations found in tooth paste)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5883469/
https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o774
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259765170_Systemic_effect_of_water_fluoridation_on_dental_caries_prevalence
I'm going to stop here for that because there are HUNDREDS of peer reviewed articles that express fluoridations efficacy in improving a communities oral health.
I actually did research on community fluoridation in dental school as apart of an oral public health research internship.
>fluoride toothpaste specific meta-study analyzing 75 publications.
https://www.nature.com/articles/6400176
Your dataset is literally n=1. The one thing about dentistry, is that most of this shit is 100% preventable. People know that brushing twice a day, flossing, and not doing drugs is LITERALLY all you need to do to avoid cavities 99.99% of the time. It makes me so angry seeing people spend thousands of dollars bankrupting themselves because they wouldn't listen
That first one actually suggests that too much fluoride will frick your teeth up. Pic related. The authors point out that there's a sweet spot of water fluoridation levels. That would suggest no toothpaste anons brushing with just water are on the right track, since their water is probably fluoridated and adding more might bring it up to dangerous levels. None of these though mention the actual recommendations dentists make to patients, such as coming in for a cleaning every six months, or brushing twice a day, etc., only the more general public health recommendation to fluoridate water, which frankly, I'll give you. No one was talking about that until you brought it up.
We are about to get into a big dicussion about localized applications of fluoride, fluorosis, and daily average fluoride intakes from all sources. I would rather email you about this because I have to go to sleep because I have work tmrw. If i gave you my proton mail, would you talk about this over email?
Nah, I appreciate it, but I'll just say my point is that dental treatments and recommendations are not nearly as well established as dentists tend to represent them to their patients. I like to think that's common sense with most other types of medicine, but for whatever reason dentistry seems to have a certain mystique, maybe from the weird vulnerable position of the patient as the dentist usually talks to him, maybe from the shock images they usually put all over the office and the nagging roasty hygienists, and people would do well to look at it with a little more skepticism. I would still go to a dentist if my pet bird's teeth started rotting out of his head and his antibiotics weren't working though.
>though
What's wrong with though though?
Can I email you anon? I have questions.
And what about the evidence showing it makes you slightly moronic? Does the municipal water need neurotoxins in it so the sugar gulping masses dont lose deyre teef?
Paid by chemical corporation that need to dispose their waste products.
There are countries that never fluridate, there are ones that did. In all of them there was a decrease of cavities. No correlation netween the use of fluoride.
All those studies you have mention say "we have less cavities than when we weren't fluoridating 20 years ago". And ckmoletely ignore that almost all regions on earth have less cavities than they used to 20 years ago.
I dont care that you are basically participating in every risk factor that leads to total dentition loss, but dont act like the shit we know about how to prevent it isnt real.
>studies say
gay
I have started using pic rel instead of the ones with bristles since my teeth are close together and these don't bend under pressure. What is the difference? are they worse?
Also what is the difference between flossing every day and every other day cos sometimes I forget but feel like it shouldn't make much difference?
Why not hydroxyapatite over fluoride? Post nose
There are many alternative toothpastes that remineralize out emale witgout any fluoride. Only morons use fluoridated toothpast today.
I wonder if they are morons because they use fluoride or they were morons to begin with
animals don't eat tons of refined sugar
I brush daily without ((toothpaste)), just with hot water under the shower, no flossing. No cavities despite smoking and heavy drinking. I barely eat or drink sugary stuff (never any candy or soda).
When we started eating food that fricked up our teeth, and when our lifespans started exceeding the useful lives of our teeth
>why do wild animals not have dental issues
They do, but they tend to wear their teeth out or break them rather than get holes in their teeth
Life expectancy is greater than 50 years old and most people aren't losing their teeth in their 20s.
White people (real ones) lack the ENAM polymorphism. This means calcium instead goes to the brain. Black people generally can drink 2 liters of soda a day, never brush their teeth, eat candy and never have a cavity if they weren't calcium deficient growing up. The white man picked brains over bones. Simple as that.
Animals do have dental hygiene you fricking moron
>hippos and crocodiles allow birds to pick shit between their teeth
sugar and other shitty components of modern diet
my teeth are fricked from years of drinking soda, if I didn't stop I'd probably not have any left
once I stopped(and stopped having sugar in my coffee) my cavities stopped getting worse
what is your opinion on water flossers? I got one recently and it seems alright but my gums are still not used to it.
Anon, wisdom teeth exist as an adaptation to the fact that countless generations of humans were losing enough teeth to need 4 more down the line just to survive, let alone be comfortable. We don't need to floss, brush, and go to the dentist. We do it to not suffer like we used to.
>How does any other animal on the planet have good teeth without any of that?
Because animals evolved to rely on teeth to survive, unlike humans. If a wolf loses it's teeth, it can no longer kill or chew and dies. If a herbivore loses its teeth, it can no longer chew and dies. If a human loses its teeth, it uses tools and/or alternative cooking methods to come up with food that does not require chewing with teeth.
You're thinking of it wrong. We're not the only animal with bad teeth. We're the only animal with bad teeth that managed to survive this long.
I'd prefer my breath didn't stink
diet of course.
but also if you had any pets you would know that animal breath is fricking disgusting and they do actually often have teeth problems
Primitive tribes don't have any issues you have described. The answer is that they aren't deficient in d3, k2mk7, boron, magnesium, etc. And they don't eat refined shit like we do.
I supplement d3, boron, k2mk7, magnesium, don't eat sweets, use apagard toothpaste only once a day, don't floss and had zero cavities for 7 years sonce I started doing all that.
women are good for your teeth?
This bit unironically. Goddamn do I love flossing, homie
i floss every day but i don't think i do it right
are you supposed to wiggle it around?
Wiggle it around, clean the floss in between teeth (so that you aren't putting gunk you just took out right back in), and if you want, you can also put toothpaste on the floss so you can get fluoride better in between the teeth.
Look up a YouTube video. You're supposed to scrape the sides and slightly under the gums of both teeth around each gap. Gently pull the floss down along one tooth, pull sideways against it, and pull/scrape upwards. Repeat with the other tooth, then proceed with the other gaps.
Feels so good.
I always thought pain meant I was doing it right until they told me they're clean but they can tell I'm flossing so hard it's getting close to the bone.
no you just pop it in and out. that's how your dentist should do it if he has ever cleaned your teeth. you don't want to wear down the gums.
>using mouth wash
opinion disregarded.
floss more regularly and do it properly. don't rub your gums, just pop it in and out.
I use a waterpik with 50/50 listerine and water. Honestly it's pretty fun and I use it every time I eat meat as it's always when I eat meat that it gets stuck in my tteef.
i just bleed a lot and my teeth feel horrible when i floss. it also seems to space my teeth out and i feel like im ruining them when i do. is this a fricking israelite psyop?
It's the plaque being removed from between your teeth. You're feeling the natural gaps between your teeth that plaque used to fill. That's is what clean teeth feel like.
And as for the bleeding, it's most likely because you floss and brush irregularly.
the bleeding will stop as your gums sort their shit out on day 3 or 4
it will also feel less weird after because theyll hopefully be cleaner to start with
i was being a homosexual and would brush my teeth maybe 3 times a week for a solid year awhile ago. now i brush 2x daily, but don't floss. should i go waterpik?
No, overpriced. Regular floss is fine.
>always had cavities and ahit when I was younger
>doctors even pulled 2 teeth when it wasn't needed and hurt like shit
>didn't go to the dentist for 12 years after high school
>finally went back after freaking out about ignoring it forever
>no issues at all
>they say it's because I flossed twice a day
But I ironically think that them scratching your teeth with metal every 6 months gave me teeth issues and it's a scam. Not sure still, no issues still after going to them again for 2 years and still floss twice a day.
Yeah if you take care of your teeth you won't get a substantial plaque buildup for a year or two. And even then it will just be a little bit behind your bottom incisors.
True. Floss every day. No dentist required.
Waterpiks are goated. My sister who’s a dentist said that most people floss incorrectly and just end up pushing particles even deeper so she gave me a waterpik to use. It’s crazy how cleaner it feels
>Teeth feel fine
>Go to dentist for checkup and clean
>Hmm yes anon you have some dark spots in your tooth that you can't see and can't feel. Here's an x-ray you can't read to prove it, we need to get that filled.
>Drills holes in my bones, fills it with dentist clag
>That'll be $800+tip! Also $150 for that x-ray.
>That tooth now hurts forever
Are dentists a scam? The less I go to dentist the longer my teeth go without hurting.
I had something similar happen to me. Stay the frick away from anyone fresh out of dental school. All they know is billable work . Fricking homosexual newbie dentist told me i needed a deep cleaning at least 3 times a year. WTF? The fun part of this: My dental insurer wont pay for deep cleanings without x-rays, etc proving the work was necessary, meaning I would have to pay out of pocket 100% for each one. Oh and dude told me that the condition i needed the deep cleaning for did not show up on xrays and was asymptomatic (i have perfect teeth). Suuuuure thing buddy.
>Go to dentist for regular checkup on tail end of cut (i.e. I haven't had sugar/soda/whatever in a while)
>"Wow your teeth look like shit" (paraphrased)
>Gives me a bottle of "special" mouthwash to use twice a day or whatever
>Go home and use it that day, never open it again
>Go back to dentist a few months later while bulking on McDonald's
>Tells me my teeth look great and that that mouthwash is doing wonders
My orthodontist was based and jacked though
>floss for first time in months
>blood fricking everywhere
>gums make this weird ripping sound
Frick this, I've got dental insurance.
Its effective and probably a much more important activity than just brushing. In fact i would claim brushing is only minorly useful and that too in only deodorising your mouth
There is no reason to clean your teeth unless you want a guy's dick in your mouth. Enjoy your AIDS, gayets.
I floss and brush twice a day. Life's good.
>tfw the dentist and his assistants told me I'm one of the cleanest mouths they work on
It's so disgusting when you get a whiff of tooth decay on someone's breath.
How do people with rotten teeth even kiss someone without making them puke?
They kiss other people with rotten teeth used to the smell.
>checked
Thank you, IST for being one of the most useful boards. If I’m stuck here forever, I am glad to at least be stuck with you. 🙂
How do people just not take care of their teeth? I'm very thankful to my parents for instilling me with good dental hygiene. I'm concerned about my brother though because I can smell some funk on his breath often and he must know it because he is usually chewing on strong gum.
It's amazing what a white smile and fresh breath can do for your social standing.