Because your body naturally produces things you need to clean, it’s like 75% of the reason you do it. Eating stuff just speeds up the production of bacteria. Give your breath a smell as you wake up in the morning before you eat anything, it reeks.
You should brush your teeth in the morning whether you eat breakfast or not.
The way I always heard it from multiple dentists is “if you want to keep your friends brush in the morning, if you want to keep your teeth brush at night, best is both.”
Eating a mint to deal with bad breath seems like the equivalent of a 15 year old boy dousing himself with Axe body spray to deal with their BO. It doesn’t solve the problem, it just temporarily masks it, and usually to a lesser degree than you think or hope.
Because the bacteria in your mouth thrive in dry conditions, and a majority of sleepers are mouth breathers. The bacteria in your mouth are what destroy your teeth and give you bad breath.
Edit: I just saw you said Yes to after breakfast. I don’t know if it matters when, just don’t make night time be the only time you brush.
Yeah, I think I was underestimating how many people are habitually skipping breakfast. That seems like a bigger issue to address than whether you shower before or after the least active part of your day, if I’m being honest.
For me it started with not breathing well through my noses so my mouth would taste awful when I woke up from being all dry and weird. Then it became an excuse to get my ass out of bed and moving.
I don’t brush my teeth after sleeping, either. After breakfast, sure, but first thing in the am? Why?
Because your body naturally produces things you need to clean, it’s like 75% of the reason you do it. Eating stuff just speeds up the production of bacteria. Give your breath a smell as you wake up in the morning before you eat anything, it reeks.
You should brush your teeth in the morning whether you eat breakfast or not.
The way I always heard it from multiple dentists is “if you want to keep your friends brush in the morning, if you want to keep your teeth brush at night, best is both.”
Dentist never heard of a mint?
Also I thought morning brushing was about teeth because most smells are on the tongue not the teeth unless there’d an abscess or something.
Does everybody brush/scrape their tongue every morning?
I mean, I can’t speak for everyone, but I do.
Eating a mint to deal with bad breath seems like the equivalent of a 15 year old boy dousing himself with Axe body spray to deal with their BO. It doesn’t solve the problem, it just temporarily masks it, and usually to a lesser degree than you think or hope.
Because the bacteria in your mouth thrive in dry conditions, and a majority of sleepers are mouth breathers. The bacteria in your mouth are what destroy your teeth and give you bad breath.
Edit: I just saw you said Yes to after breakfast. I don’t know if it matters when, just don’t make night time be the only time you brush.
Yeah, I think I was underestimating how many people are habitually skipping breakfast. That seems like a bigger issue to address than whether you shower before or after the least active part of your day, if I’m being honest.
For me it started with not breathing well through my noses so my mouth would taste awful when I woke up from being all dry and weird. Then it became an excuse to get my ass out of bed and moving.