Do you brush your teeth before or after breakfast?

[Mike_Lowery]

Growing up, every adult I knew yelled at their kids (myself included) to brush their teeth before coming to the breakfast table. I always refused, and ate first. I mean, wtf?! Your teeth are just gonna get greasy after you munch on links, eggs, and pancakes.

[Surfingfarmboy]

I brush them after breakfast and before retiring to bed at night.

I agree with you, Mike. What's the point of brushing them before breakfast?

[Mike_Lowery]

I brush them after breakfast and before retiring to bed at night.

I agree with you, Mike. What's the point of brushing them before breakfast?

word. and juices taste bad if you brush first.

[CranBeree]

i brush before and after and yes when i was employed i would keep a tootbrush and colgate in my desk so i could brush after lunch.

make my kids brush em before and after too.

[Kalei99]

word. and juices taste bad if you brush first.


I agree with you both! Orange Juice is just plain NASTY after you brush your teeth. AFTER breakfast for me! I brush 'em, floss 'em, and Listerine 'em at least three times a day. A little bit of neurosis kicks in after each meal....:o

[acousticlady]

Well, since I never eat breakfast I guess I would say before. And before bed at night.

[tutusue]

It depends on how hungry I am when I get up in the morning!

[MixedPlateBroker]

Usually before since I take breakfast at my desk at work.

[cynsaligia]

Usually before since I take breakfast at my desk at work.

ditto, since we carpool. :D <--- like my clean teefs?

[SusieMisajon]

The point about brushing your teeth in the morning, whether you eat or not, is to get rid of the tooth-eating bacteria that has been busy during the night, while you have been sleeping and not salivating enough to wash them away.

[Beau]

Growing up, every adult I knew yelled at their kids (myself included) to brush their teeth before coming to the breakfast table. I always refused, and ate first. I mean, wtf?! Your teeth are just gonna get greasy after you munch on links, eggs, and pancakes.

I know what you mean! My father was very strict about his kids coming to the breakfast table with teeth already brushed, hair groomed, and dressed ready to go to school. He claimed it was a major turnoff to see disheveled persons with halitosis at the dining room table.

Since I live alone, I brush my teeth after I have had breakfast. But if I was living with someone who I had an intimate relationship with, then I probably would go back to the way I was raised. The exception being that I would also brush after I had breakfest.

[TATTRAT]

Before Breakfast, and before bed, what happens in between is up to me.

It s all a cycle. Do you think, oh I am eating a meal leem go brush, or would you rather brush after. But even after, is always gonna lead to another meal...just brush, that is all I say.

[Honoruru]

I always brush after I wake up, just to get rid of that gunky feeling. I don't always eat breakfast, but if I do (usually just oatmeal), I may or may not brush again, depending on how rushed I am.

[SusieMisajon]

Those little bacterias (the ones that work all night to ruin your teeth), they are fast workers...the damage begins less than twenty minutes after you eat something. So you gotta brush right after eating anything.


(I know this works, because my kids have only one cavity between the four of them, in seventeen years)


PS You also gotta floss or use an oral jet thingy, both for those hard-to-get bits AND for gum massage...perfectly good teeth can be ruined by gum disease.

[achow]

I tend to brush my teeth before breakfast and before I go to bed and sleep. Who doesn't brush their teeth?

[tutusue]

BREAKING NEWS...
I just brushed my teeth and have not yet had breakfast!
Tune in tomorrow for another, late breaking update.

Reporting live from Waikiki. Back to you at the desk, HTers!

:p <-- I even brushed my tongue!

[Mike_Lowery]

(Updated at 10:07 am)
HT Staff

Dental crews have reportedly seen Mike_Lowery on a couch in the Lihue area near Kauai Community College where has been reported to have had a Coke without brushing his teeth.

It should be okay, since he's a guy who is enjoying college football games on TV in his boxers. Men take a day off from hygiene in addition to work on weekends.

There was no word on how much bacteria is killed by the acidic soft drink.

[i-hungry]

If brush before breakfast then its briefly. Just to get rid of any thing that ain't right in there. I use toothpaste without mint so I don't get the bad taste with orange juice.

If I don't brush then I'll rinse really good.