Do you brush your teeth before or after breakfast?

Always brush before breakfast. I don't brush then have breakfast straight after anyway, so no, my food does not taste minty.

For those who are asking whether I would therefore brush my teeth before lunch and before dinner, well do you brush your teeth after every meal too?

I've always been taught that eating, then brushing teeth right after is not good for your teeth, unless you have an hour or more in between eating food and leaving the house. Personally I eat and leave straight away.

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Dentists say you should brush a minimum of 2x a day as well. I'm not sure what this is based on or whether it's legit or not but it's ridiculous to laugh at someone for brushing 3x a day.

Brushing straight after eating isn't good according to the NHS, dentists etc. No idea why but it's not just an urban myth or something.

It's a habit from having braces I'd imagine. Like I said, I have OCPD (labels labels ¬¬) and I've greatly reduced my number of times brushing a day, and the number of times I wash my hands, too. I know it's not good to brush all the time, but 3x being called ridiculous is.... stupid, really. Especially as at dinner, I drink a can of coke usually, so I don't want that to be sticking around and eroding my teeth!

With brushing after breakfast, I wait until I'm done in the shower to brush, and after dinner, I wait until I've washed up the dishes. And then I brush my teeth before bed, which is usually in the small hours of the morning, so it's never exactly straight away! I just must brush at some point (silly routines)

You know, people who are OCD about washing their hands actually had it right all along. I remember reading a study where it took 20 seconds of handwashing to remove 90% of bacteria (30 seconds for 99%). 20 seconds is definitely considered OCD in a world where people think supermarket brand standard soap actually kills bacteria!

Well if youre up early like me and in a rush most of the time, I wouldnt have time to remove the minty taste; I drink water through the night so dont normally wake up with that dry sour taste.

How is brushing teeth after eating bad for the teeth ? I'm intrigued.

Maybe that reply didn't come across as sarcastically as it was intended!

I've never understood the logic behind brushing before. You're just cleaning then and then getting them dirty, what's the point in that?


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I assure you it was literal. T

No, as in my reply to the OP about the hypothetical cesspool in their mouth after a day was supposed to be sarcastic but came across as sincere, thus earning me the wrath of every other level headed person here!

Well, as I'm going to be working in the healthcare system, I'll be washing them repeatedly anyway, and I won't look strange for it Hooray!

PS: And my hand-washing was a bit much, even by OCD standards? Each time I went to the bathroom, or at any chance I'd get, I'd wash my hands, then re-wash them straight after another two times. Now I just wash them once when I think they feel dirty... Which in my job is often, as right now I deal with money, clothes hangers and dusty warehouse environments The hospital will be a nice change!

If this were the case then why do we not brush our teeth after all meals? (The majority of us).

You brush when you wake up before breakfast, then last thing before bed.

This logic fails. I brush my teeth in the morning to clean my mouth and keep my teeth healthy. Teeth were meant for waiting so I do not see how breakfast will "dirty" them, is cereal and toast that messy...

Im before and i was suprised to find that many of my friends do it after breakfast. Why would you want to have breakfast with all that bacteria still in your mouth?
Thats just my opinion though! If you do it after please dont be offended

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It's just natural bacteria you have in your mouth anyway, you brush your teeth before lunch and before dinner as well then?

Yeah I guess that would be. It's not so much that you wash your hands a lot but you feel they're dirty when they're obviously not.
At least you can indulge at the hospital and procrastinate in getting rid of it

If this were the case then why do we not brush our teeth after all meals? (The majority of us).

You brush when you wake up before breakfast, then last thing before bed.

This logic fails. I brush my teeth in the morning to clean my mouth and keep my teeth healthy. Teeth were meant for waiting so I do not see how breakfast will "dirty" them, is cereal and toast that messy...