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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Brush your teeth with hot or cold water?
If so why?
My friends argument is you’d not wash your dishes in cold so why your teeth? She thinks it’s cleaner.
I’m just grateful people actually brush their teeth haha.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Brush your teeth with hot or cold water?
If so why?
My friends argument is you’d not wash your dishes in cold so why your teeth? She thinks it’s cleaner.
I’m just grateful people actually brush their teeth haha.
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She makes a good point. How have I lived all these years without thinking about this? Surely there's a dentist on here to answer the question? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cold any salt in your mouth will be activated by hot water and cause damage. Any biker know you only wash a bike with cold water to clear road salt. Same reason. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Brush your teeth with hot or cold water?
If so why?
My friends argument is you’d not wash your dishes in cold so why your teeth? She thinks it’s cleaner.
I’m just grateful people actually brush their teeth haha.
She makes a good point. How have I lived all these years without thinking about this? Surely there's a dentist on here to answer the question?"
I googled it and apparently warm is good for sensitive teeth. If you used warm boiled water that should be good and would kill the germs that people worry about from bathroom taps.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Brush your teeth with hot or cold water?
If so why?
My friends argument is you’d not wash your dishes in cold so why your teeth? She thinks it’s cleaner.
I’m just grateful people actually brush their teeth haha.
She makes a good point. How have I lived all these years without thinking about this? Surely there's a dentist on here to answer the question?
I googled it and apparently warm is good for sensitive teeth. If you used warm boiled water that should be good and would kill the germs that people worry about from bathroom taps.
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I'm using hot water from now on. |
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By *HaRiFMan
over a year ago
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"Brush your teeth with hot or cold water?
If so why?
My friends argument is you’d not wash your dishes in cold so why your teeth? She thinks it’s cleaner.
I’m just grateful people actually brush their teeth haha.
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I use a toothbrush and toothpaste  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Brush your teeth with hot or cold water?
If so why?
My friends argument is you’d not wash your dishes in cold so why your teeth? She thinks it’s cleaner.
I’m just grateful people actually brush their teeth haha.
I use a toothbrush and toothpaste "
Funny that lol me too! |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I'm left handed so brush with my left hand, so the free hand to turn on the tap is the right one, and my hot tap is on the right side of the sink"
I’m dyspraxic and have adhd and this confused me. Lol too many directions for my little brain haha . ( ) |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I'm left handed so brush with my left hand, so the free hand to turn on the tap is the right one, and my hot tap is on the right side of the sink"
Sack the plumber then as it's on the wrong side  |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
"I use toothpaste. You shouldn't rinse your teeth never mind use hit water from the tap. "
I stopped using water a few years ago more because of the water where I travel but my dentist says not to rinse at all. |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
"I use toothpaste. You shouldn't rinse your teeth never mind use hit water from the tap.
How do you get rid of the bits if you don't rinse? "
Spit.
If you find you have food bits when you brush your teeth you are going to lose all your teeth eventually. Use toothpicks and drink water after meals |
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"I use toothpaste. You shouldn't rinse your teeth never mind use hit water from the tap.
I stopped using water a few years ago more because of the water where I travel but my dentist says not to rinse at all. "
I don't rinse because I have prescription toothpaste and was told not to or its essentially pointless using it but don't you still have to wet the toothbrush? |
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"I use toothpaste. You shouldn't rinse your teeth never mind use hit water from the tap.
I stopped using water a few years ago more because of the water where I travel but my dentist says not to rinse at all.
I don't rinse because I have prescription toothpaste and was told not to or its essentially pointless using it but don't you still have to wet the toothbrush? "
Nope - keep the toothbrush dry |
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"Cold water. I was always told hot water from the tap wasn't safe to drink.
This
Why?"
Because hot water is heated in a copper boiler (or they used to be at least). The hot water corrodes and dissolves trace amounts of the copper over time. Copper is toxic to most vertebrates (although not the naked mole rat), and drinking boiler heated water over a prolonged period builds the copper up in your system. This is why you shouldnt drink hot water from the boiler and why you should never fill your kettle with hot water. Also the hot water softens the glue holding the bristles of your brush |
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"I use toothpaste. You shouldn't rinse your teeth never mind use hit water from the tap.
I stopped using water a few years ago more because of the water where I travel but my dentist says not to rinse at all.
I don't rinse because I have prescription toothpaste and was told not to or its essentially pointless using it but don't you still have to wet the toothbrush?
Nope - keep the toothbrush dry "
It might just be me but the thought gives me that nails on a chalkboard feel. Isn't it kinda gunky if you don't rinse it too? |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I use toothpaste. You shouldn't rinse your teeth never mind use hit water from the tap.
I stopped using water a few years ago more because of the water where I travel but my dentist says not to rinse at all.
I don't rinse because I have prescription toothpaste and was told not to or its essentially pointless using it but don't you still have to wet the toothbrush?
Nope - keep the toothbrush dry
It might just be me but the thought gives me that nails on a chalkboard feel. Isn't it kinda gunky if you don't rinse it too? "
It’s gotta be wet before it goes in. And I don’t just mean the toothbrush haha. X |
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"I use toothpaste. You shouldn't rinse your teeth never mind use hit water from the tap.
I stopped using water a few years ago more because of the water where I travel but my dentist says not to rinse at all.
I don't rinse because I have prescription toothpaste and was told not to or its essentially pointless using it but don't you still have to wet the toothbrush?
Nope - keep the toothbrush dry
It might just be me but the thought gives me that nails on a chalkboard feel. Isn't it kinda gunky if you don't rinse it too?
It’s gotta be wet before it goes in. And I don’t just mean the toothbrush haha. X"
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"I use toothpaste. You shouldn't rinse your teeth never mind use hit water from the tap.
I stopped using water a few years ago more because of the water where I travel but my dentist says not to rinse at all.
I don't rinse because I have prescription toothpaste and was told not to or its essentially pointless using it but don't you still have to wet the toothbrush?
Nope - keep the toothbrush dry
It might just be me but the thought gives me that nails on a chalkboard feel. Isn't it kinda gunky if you don't rinse it too?
It’s gotta be wet before it goes in. And I don’t just mean the toothbrush haha. X
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You dirty lot
I rinse the toothbrush afterwards |
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"I use toothpaste. You shouldn't rinse your teeth never mind use hit water from the tap.
I stopped using water a few years ago more because of the water where I travel but my dentist says not to rinse at all.
I don't rinse because I have prescription toothpaste and was told not to or its essentially pointless using it but don't you still have to wet the toothbrush?
Nope - keep the toothbrush dry
It might just be me but the thought gives me that nails on a chalkboard feel. Isn't it kinda gunky if you don't rinse it too?
It’s gotta be wet before it goes in. And I don’t just mean the toothbrush haha. X
You dirty lot
I rinse the toothbrush afterwards "
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
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"I use toothpaste. You shouldn't rinse your teeth never mind use hit water from the tap.
How do you get rid of the bits if you don't rinse? "
You shouldn't rinse your mouth, it just washes the toothpaste away. I just wipe my closed mouth. |
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By *avie65Man
over a year ago
In the west. |
"I use toothpaste. You shouldn't rinse your teeth never mind use hit water from the tap.
I stopped using water a few years ago more because of the water where I travel but my dentist says not to rinse at all.
I don't rinse because I have prescription toothpaste and was told not to or its essentially pointless using it but don't you still have to wet the toothbrush?
Nope - keep the toothbrush dry "
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Rinse toothbrush quickly with cold water, apply toothpaste & brush away. Wet brush helps toothpaste to froth up.
Spit & rinse mouth with cold water.
Hot water from storage tanks is not healthy as mentioned above. Plus it destroys the strength in the bristles making the brush too soft to scrub your teeth effectively. |
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