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Brushing before breakfast seems like a weird idea to me. The mint flavor of the toothpaste would ruin the flavor of what I'd eat and I would need to brush again
by antoineMoPa 10y ago
Brushing before breakfast seems like a weird idea to me. The mint flavor of the toothpaste would ruin the flavor of what I'd eat and I would need to brush again after.
Did all of HN stop eating breakfast after this post?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11753668 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11753668
- gmac 10y agoI believe it's generally the soapy toothpaste ingredients (sodium lauryl sulfate) that mess with your mouth chemistry and make things taste weird for a while afterwards, not mainly the mint flavour. Other kinds of toothpaste (e.g. I sometimes use an aloe vera based one) don't have this problem. And my understanding of the before vs after breakfast teeth-brushing debate is that it doesn't that much matter which you do: do it before, and you clear off the bacteria that have accumulated overnight before handing them a load of food to work on; do it after, and your teeth are cleaner for the next few hours instead.
- alfon 10y agoSo before and after?