Tongue Brushes: Mod Con or Big Con?

I would suggest you do clean your tongue. I recently went to the dentist and because I haven't cleaned my tongue in such a long time I had to have it filled! In short the dentist drilled out my tongue and filled it with some kind of amalgam mix. As well as being excruciating it is now very impractical as I no longer have any muscle control of my tongue and also very limited sense of taste. I can't use metal cutlery because of that horrible feeling you get and whenever anybody comes near me with a magnet my tongue starts wagging furiously. On top of that this dentist charged me £1000 for the procedure. All because I didn't brush my tongue.
People, think before you save that £2 on a toothbrush without a tongue brush in future. It's nothing to pay to avoid all the humiliation I have suffered.


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rotters said:
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.
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What about bits of food that get caught between teeth?
 
Since when were tongue scrapers a new thing?
A number of toothbrushes have had them on the back for years.

Scraping your tongue isn't something your Dentist is going to tell you to do because its not something that is likely to have much effect on your teeth. That gunk on your tongue is bacteria and food stuffs, by removing it you can help control bad breath, as well as uncovering your taste buds more so. If you have really bad tongue gunk it can also be a sign of a number of medical conditions.
 
I brush my tongue because I get some scummy buildup there if I dont. I hate doing it though.. makes you heave if you go too far back :<

I suggest you all do it though, the amount of bacteria/plaque on your tongue would surprise you.
 
If you really want a proper tongue scraper that works, get an Orabrush. I bought one (comes in a pack of two) off eBay a few years ago, works better than anything else.

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Its another gimmick like soap and toilet roll... Nothing wrong with using gravel and the cat.
 
I heard on the TV (take with pinch of salt as I am not sure if it was an ad or a documentary) that the bacteria which causes bad breath is in the majority on your tongue.

Not that I have a tongue brush, though.
 
Sounds like a gimmick to me. I've had toothbrushes with a tongue brush on, but they've been next to useless :p
 
Seems a load of ****. Although I can vouch that a good electric toothbrush is a million times better than manually brushing your teeth
 
Hatter The Mad said:
I heard on the TV (take with pinch of salt as I am not sure if it was an ad or a documentary) that the bacteria which causes bad breath is in the majority on your tongue.
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A proper tongue scraper is way better, those brushes will do nothing useful.

If you don't believe it makes a difference, scrape some of the gunk off your tongue and stick it on your wrist, wait a few seconds for it to dry out and then smell it.

It will smell pretty rank.


(in b4 it's just you... :p)
 
It's not exactly a con as such, more a meaningless marketing gimmick. A manufacturer wanted something to differentiate their product from the almost identical products from other manufacturers and there's not much you can add to a toothbrush. Lather on the advertising flimflam and you can suck some customers away from your competitors who don't yet have the SuperNewThing on their products.

There is a point to brushing your tongue, but the bristles that you use for brushing your teeth do a better job of cleaning your tongue than a few little flaps of rubber stuck on the back of the toothbrush.

£3 electric toothbrush from Wilko's for me. Does the job well and it's cheaper than the lower end electric toothbrushes with replaceable heads (due to the cost of the heads and the lower reliability of the more complex toothbrushes).

I tend to sterilise my toothbrush by pouring boiling water over the head sometimes, when I've made a mug of tea and there's some boiling water left over. Anyone else do that?
 
Actually look at electric toothbrushes.

Why do they all have a 2 minute timer. They say you should clean your teeth with a normal toothbrush and brush for 2 minutes.

Oral-B Braun Professional Care 1000 - removes twice as much plaque than a regular manual toothbrush - Rotates 8800 times per minute

So surely I should only have to brush for a minute?
 
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