Tongue Brushes: Mod Con or Big Con?

[Morgoth]

I use an Orabrush too, it works great!

I also have the Oral B Triumph. Also works great.

 

[trigger-happy]

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'.)
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I never knew Mr. Fantastic has a daughter!

 

[Nate--IRL--]

EDIT:-Already posted

Nate

 

[The Halk]

The typical OcUK user continues to be manky and smelly I see....

It may not affect your teeth, but if you want your breath to smell better than faeces then brush your tongue.

It's volatile sulphur compounds released by bacteria that produce the smell, and as well as your teeth and between them they can also dwell on your tongue.

The main source of bad breath is the tongue.

I wonder if it's the same filthy tinks that won't wash their hands "in case they pick up someone else's germs" that think oral hygeine is a con too.

But yeah, go ahead and dismiss it and keep on with breath that smells like faeces.

 

[Destination]

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

fapp less for a couple of months, take zinc supplements for the same period, will be interesting to see if it clears up. It tends to.

 

[fez]

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?

Tongue scrapers are definitely worth using. Most of the bad breath does come from our tongues so it makes sense to clean it. Have to agree though, the ones you get on the back of tooth brushes are less than useless.

 

[Cr0fty]

With the human population rising as it is, there is only growth in the accumulated bad breath air we breathe. Eventually weather patterns will become affected as huge clouds of noxious gas react with global air currents. It's actually all rather serious... We must try and prevent mass contamination of the air supply by all means, be it through tongue brushes, mouthwash, toothpaste or else!

 

[SheepBeast]

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.

Your name is very suitable, if you follow this advice.