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No. Gums (and possibly even tongue) are also part of your "smile". Could have said "mouth" but smile sounds better. On the note of tongues, using a tongue scra
by MicroBerto 10y ago
No. Gums (and possibly even tongue) are also part of your "smile". Could have said "mouth" but smile sounds better.
On the note of tongues, using a tongue scraper is a great way to get rid of nasty bacteria that causes bad breath and spreads to the rest of the teeth/gums. Cheap and effective.
- mcguire 10y agoI hate to do this, but...source?
- MicroBerto 10y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3898367/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3898367/ Gist is that tongue cleaning yields less bacteria (that's one major cause of bad breath), but they still recommend both brushing and tongue cleaning since the reduction of tongue bacteria didn't reduce plaque. I never claimed that it did though. Tongue scrapers are cheap and awesome. It's amazing what kind of disgusting stuff you'll scrape off that thing. I'll nearly guarantee you better breath unless you have some serious other problems, like periodontitis. A second source on elderly: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16677187 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16677187 "These results suggest that tongue care is essential for preventing oral disease and needs to be part of any oral care programme in elderly people."
- mcguire 10y agoThanks!
- foldr 10y agoI think it's maybe an American/non-American thing. Talking about healthy smiles just sounds like weird ad-speak to me.
- learc83 10y agoNo I found it weird as well. We don't use that term. I've never heard anyone outside of a toothbrush/toothpaste ad say it.