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Ima Trooper
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Toothbrushing Poll 2
#25374478 - 08/08/18 08:54 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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Originally I wanted to just do a poll about how messy brushing your teeth gets, but I'll add in a few other questions for flavor. In movies and TV there's never any toothpaste coming out of the actor/ess's mouth, for obvious reasons.
IRL, brushing my teeth is messy. I try to keep my mouth as closed as possible, but toothpaste always ends up coming out somehow, whether it's when I switching sides of my mouth, going from the top to the bottom, etc.
Is my experience normal or abnormal?
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Jokeshopbeard
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Electric or manual?
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Ima Trooper
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Vote in you own poal or only view the results?
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blackhawk
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I try to brush my teeth twice a day everyday. Sometimes, I'll just get so damn lazy and fall asleep instead. I also use a manual brush, I don't like the vibrating feeling from an electric brush
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cinderblock
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Re: Toothbrushing Poll [Re: blackhawk]
#25374592 - 08/08/18 09:44 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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The trick to getting non-messy results is something I discovered relatively late in life.
When you brush, you need to hold the end pointing upward... imagine you're holding a popsicle. The way to avoid it dripping into your hands is to hold it with the handle sticking upward, allowing gravity to lead all toothpaste back into your mouth.
Second trick is to tilt your head at an upward angle as well, so the toothpaste saliva soup remains pooled in your mouth, as opposed to dripping out...
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CHeifM4sterDiezL
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Re: Toothbrushing Poll [Re: blackhawk]
#25374596 - 08/08/18 09:45 AM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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I do it in the shower so zero mess.
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CHeifM4sterDiezL
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I liked alot of electrics I've had but found the are hella expensive to buy n maintain and break like hot cakes
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tyrannicalrex
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Colgate spinbrush, 7-9 bucks.
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CHeifM4sterDiezL
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used em. break like tooth picks not waterproof so no shower brushing shits not even ultra sonic u mite aswell jus manuallybrush
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tyrannicalrex
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hmmm, have had one for a few years, only replaced it once or twice in 5-8 years.
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CHeifM4sterDiezL
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I'd wear the brushes off that from jus brushing by then never mind the motor
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tyrannicalrex
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I replace the heads every 6 months of course,lol.
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Crazy_Horse
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Quote:
cinderblock said: Second trick is to tilt your head at an upward angle as well, so the toothpaste saliva soup remains pooled in your mouth, as opposed to dripping out...
I would choke that way!
I've been told that my mistake is to put water on my toothbrush before starting the brushing. It always gets super messy!
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Jokeshopbeard
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I had that one for ages. I'm all about Sonicare now though:
I take brushing my teeth very seriously. Probably cause I'm English and have shit teeth. Two implants and three crowns by the age of 32.
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Crazy_Horse
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My teeths are pretty.
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relic
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sonicare has been my jam for about a dozen years. took me ten to perma drain the battery in the first one.
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koraks
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Jokeshopbeard said: I had that one for ages. I'm all about Sonicare now though:
I used a Sonicare for a few years, thinking its ultrasonic action could be more reliable than Braun's 'old-fashioned' rotating action. Then my dentist recommended the Braun system to me and I thought, "heck, they're probably just getting paid to push it". Still, I thought, let's shut them up and do as they say. Bought the most nifty Braun system that comes with an external/wireless timer and whatnot. Guess what - my dentist was right. It's vastly superior to the Sonicare I used before. It just feels so much cleaner and seems to be far more effective. It is, however, also vastly superior to the entry-level Braun that my girlfriend has and she agrees - so not all Brauns are created equally. Mine was expensive as fuck, but the brushes are MUCH cheaper than the more complex Philips brushes and they're the same as the brushes for the cheaper Braun systems. I'm not some kind of health freak, not by a long shot, but I have to admit that this Braun thing was maybe the best €90 I spent. It's been going strong for about 3 years now and still works fine. If it breaks one day, I'll buy a new one right away.
Either way, any electronic system is so much better than manual. You just don't get in all the places where an electric brings you and the brushing action is just orders of magnitude more effective. Whenever I travel, I'm cast back to manual brushing and it always feels like being teleported back to the Middle Ages.
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Re: Toothbrushing Poll [Re: koraks] 1
#25375953 - 08/08/18 08:59 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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all you're doing is scrubbing shit off your teeth for me getting these half toothpick half floss things at the store was the greatest change ever to my routine
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Re: Toothbrushing Poll [Re: Konyap]
#25376070 - 08/08/18 10:03 PM (5 years, 7 months ago) |
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I know what I think
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