Well, normally, I’d just apply a small dollop of toothpaste, wet it and the brush, and brush.
Sometimes, I’ll rinse the brush in Listerine either before or after.
Flossing is always before. Rinsing with Plax comes after the flossing. Listerine rinse is the last thing, after brushing and rinsing with water.
So, to sum up:[list=1][]Floss[]Rinse with Plax[]Paste on brush[]Wet brush[]Brush (slowly and gently, brushing should take ~1-2 minutes)[]Swish with waterSwish with Listerine[/list=1]It’s really quite simple.
Yet another wet, apply, wet, brush vote. This seems like the only “clean” way to me.
Only if you turn the water on so it comes out full force. If you turn the water on so it trickles out slowly, and hold the brush toothpaste side up, it works great.
And I’m strange as hell, but I wasn’t sure if it was my toothbrushing habits that made me so.
Reading other people’s post, apparently it does. I dunno, how can you people stand all that pasty goo in your mouth? Whenever I have enough suds to spit, I spit. Then I turn the water back onto a trickle, dash the brush underneath, and start scrubbing again with fresh suds. How can you tell if your teeth are clean if you’ve got all those old glommy suds in there?
::shrug:: I think you’re all a bunch of evil communist perverts.
Except for CnoteChris. And anyone else who spits a lot. I’m pretty sure that that is God’s prefered method of toothbrushing.
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I usually squeeze a glob of toothpaste directly into my mouth but I also wet the toothpaste after squeezing it onto a wet brush if I’m at someone else’s place.
It never even occured to me that people wet the toothpaste once it is on the brush.
I always wet the toothbrush first, but I only do that to rinse off any dust or bugs or poopy molecules that may have floated out of the toilet and onto my brush.
I also rinse with warm water, cause cold water hurts my teeth. After that, I use Listerine. I also make sure my toothbrush is clean before I put it back so I rinse it off in hot water, and splash Listerine over it to kill any germs.
I hate when other people in the house leave crusty toothbrushes in the bathroom. Rinse the damn things off!
When I lived with my roommates, I’d keep my toothbrush in my bedroom. I didn’t want it to lean over and touch their toothbrushes in the little cuppy thing. Yuck.
