Tongue Brushes: Mod Con or Big Con?

One · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:26

We've all seen the adverts for the toothbrushes that will change your life...

This toothbrush is the equivalent of 7 toothbrushes, "Whoa, 7 toothbrushes?", yup, you really will have the whitest teeth of them all!

This one here seems to actually channel god into your mouth to give your teeth an angelic glow (notice the key words: 'triumph' and 'higher level'.)

We are now seeing a lot of toothbrushes with a magic back which will clean your tongue.

First it was being made to brush as a kid, then your dentist made you floss, now your toothbrush is making you clean your tongue. Now just why has it taken a century for this miraculous new invention to come to our stores?

Are these tongue brushes really the miracle they claim to be, or is it just another gimmick (much like the bendy wendy toothbrushes) to shift £4 toothbrushes to mugs?

paradigm · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:27

I have a toothbrush with one of these "tongue cleaner" bits on it. I still end up using the actual bristles if I do feel the need to "clean" my tongue, because the "tongue cleaner" part is worse than useless!

PapaLazaru · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:29

I have used a scraper in the past as I used to get a build up of gunk but since I stopped drinking / smoking so much the problems have disappeared. It made a lot of difference.

estebanrey · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:29

Brushing your tongue is not only a futile exercise but a horrible experience to boot.

Gilly · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:30

Load of rubbish IMO

RomanNose · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:31

Capitalism, where problems are created.
It's the same thing as 5 bladed shavers, they are worse than using 1 blade but people still go out and buy them. My dentist has never told me I need to clean my tongue, people are tricked by these companies into making you think you should.

GravyMonster · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:32

Absolute horse ****.

Ahleckz · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:33

Utter nonsense, I brush my teeth, twice a day, with a cheap Tesco toothbrush. Does the job just fine.

sbi5ar · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:33

Can't remember the last time I cleaned my tongue

Mat · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:33

I have an electric toothbrush but it doesn't have a computer in it!

sketchytom · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:37

its all a gimmick

i go to a very well respected dentist 10 miles away from the city. he has always told me since i was very young, don't fall for the expensive toothbrushes the cheap ones work just as well, its all in brushing your teeth properly.

Never had a filling yet !!!

Dj_Jestar · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:41

I use a leccy tooth brush because I'm too ****ing lazy to move my hand any faster than I need to.

Used to use a tongue scraper, as I would get a nasty yellow/green fuzz on my tongue (from smoking). Have since stopped smoking and not had any of the fuzz since, so don't scrape any more.

BoonMonkey · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:42

I brush my tongue. I get geographic tongue (or something of the sort) in the mornings... so...

Gilly · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:43

BoonMonkey said:
I brush my tongue. I get geographic tongue (or something of the sort) in the mornings... so...

:/

BoonMonkey · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:44

Gilly said:
:/

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estebanrey · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:45

You might as well brush your eye balls

Mat · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:46

estebanrey said:
You might as well brush your eye balls

OMG I don't do this! Should I do this?! Is there a fancy tool I should be using?!

rotters · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:48

went to the dentist this week and he suggested the it shouldn't be called teeth cleaning, its should be gum line cleaning, you teeth will look after themselves, but if you don't clean the bacteria from your gum line then infection/inflammation sets in, eventually becomes deeper and your teeth become loose and eventually fall out. it made complete sense to me.

Mat · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:53

rotters said:
you teeth will look after themselves, .

So why do people need to have fillings on top of teeth?

Scam · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:56

I always brush my tongue when brushing my teeth. Don't have a fancy scrape, just an electric toothbrush. I thought It was a fairly well known fact that gunk on your tongue is the primary cause of bad breath?