Early morning thought for the day: Instead of putting toothpaste on the brush, should we smear the toothpaste over our teeth and then brush? That's how the dentist does it. Do they know something we don't?
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Not mine. Are you sure you're going to a dentist? Double check the sign.
jul 16, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
My dental hygienist puts the paste on the brush.
jul 16, 2025, 8:44 pm • 0 0 • view
I just do that with my toothbrush and then start scrubbing.
jul 16, 2025, 3:12 pm • 4 0 • view
Apparently we tend to use much too much toothpaste, an issue that has been somewhat rectified with the growing usage of electric toothbrushes, since there's less surface. You only need about as much as the size of a pea. Source: Somewhere on the Internet the other week or so
jul 16, 2025, 2:39 pm • 4 0 • view
I feel like the toothpaste box directions have said "pea sized amount" for decades... but that might have just been my mom's rule 🤔 🤣
jul 17, 2025, 1:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Not knowing about Tooth Powder is the most British thing possible you could've done.
jul 16, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Remove each of your teeth, one by one, put toothpaste on them, then put them back in one by one, brushing one fully before you put in the next
jul 17, 2025, 4:51 am • 5 0 • view
🤣🤣🤣
jul 17, 2025, 1:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Personally, I put the toothpaste on the brush to smear it on the teeth, then once coated turn the brush on. Which obviously only works if you have an electric toothbrush, otherwise you're basically threatening to brush your teeth before actually brushing them I suppose.
jul 16, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
I use an electric brush, but before turning it on, I use it to sorta smear the toothpaste over the teeth. I think that's basically the same idea
jul 16, 2025, 3:08 pm • 6 0 • view
I just generally think dentists are really weird perverts
jul 16, 2025, 3:13 pm • 1 0 • view
My previous dentist actually got arrested for attempting to hook up with young girls
jul 17, 2025, 1:54 am • 0 0 • view
Sadism. The dentist knows sadism. And spent a summer in Prague learning the spackle trade
jul 16, 2025, 2:40 pm • 12 0 • view
Mostly, they just have an extra brush to do the smearing with, and are getting paid for their time.
jul 16, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
The stuff I use (8% arginine) has separate directions for rubbing it into a single tooth for ten minutes if it's especially sensitive.
jul 16, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
A previous dentist said I should smear paste on my teeth AFTER brushing (with paste) for “extra protection”. Which I hated. WHO wants to sleep with the stickiness of paste in their mouth???
jul 17, 2025, 2:18 am • 0 0 • view
The dentist generally has cleaner hands than the average bloke. And wears gloves.
jul 16, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
They know lots of things we don't. That's why they are constantly offing themselves. Apparently dentists study from the Big Golden Book of Things That Should Not Be and the dentistry is really more of a by-product.
jul 16, 2025, 2:36 pm • 0 0 • view