Brushing your teeth twice a day promotes dental health and oral hygiene!
Don't forget to brush your teeth after eating; everyone has known this phrase since early childhood. It is the phrase that is meant to remind us of the daily ritual of brushing our teeth from an early age. But brushing your teeth twice a day is not just a ritual to remove food residues from your teeth and mouth, for example. Rather, regular cleaning of the teeth is intended to protect them from harmful bacteria caused by sugar and acids.
Harmful bacteria are formed from sugar and acids found in food, drinks, and sweets. Daily dental care is therefore extremely important for your dental health. However, the question often arises, when is the right time to brush your teeth? Whether the right time for daily dental hygiene plays a role and when you should brush your teeth in the morning and evening will be explained in today's blog post.
Brush your teeth before or after eating?
The right time to brush your teeth depends on your eating habits!
The right time for daily dental care plays an important role. Healthy teeth also contribute significantly to physical well-being. Brushing your teeth daily at the wrong time can lead to health problems in the long run. For this reason, it is important that you brush your teeth at the right time. However, the question of the right time of day to brush your teeth cannot be answered easily, and certainly not in general terms.
Certain foods attack the teeth more than others. Especially sugary foods, drinks, and acidic foods attack the natural protective layer of your teeth. If you brush your teeth immediately after eating - with good intentions - you not only remove food residues, acids, and sugar, but also roughen up the top protective layer of your teeth by scrubbing and using a conventional toothbrush. To brush more sustainably, it is important that you adapt your dental hygiene to your nutritional consumption behavior. This is different for every person.
If you have consumed highly sugary or acidic drinks and foods, you should not brush your teeth immediately. Acidic foods and drinks, in particular, ensure that valuable minerals are dissolved from the tooth enamel. They attack the hard tooth substance. If you regularly brush your teeth immediately after eating, it is not impossible that you will brush away the "weakened" tooth enamel by abrasive scrubbing. You risk damage to the tooth enamel and promote tooth erosion, which can lead to sensitive teeth. Lost tooth enamel cannot be restored.
Wait at least half an hour after eating before brushing your teeth. During this time, your salivary glands can produce enough saliva, which is able to neutralize the harmful acids in your mouth. If you have eaten particularly acidic foods such as lemons, oranges, or mandarins, you should rinse your mouth with a glass of water immediately after eating. This can reduce the effect of acid on the tooth enamel of your teeth.
Brush your teeth before breakfast in the morning
Brush your teeth before breakfast in the morning and after dinner in the evening!
As for brushing your teeth with a conventional toothbrush after eating, this does not apply to the morning. Morning breakfast is an exception that deviates from brushing your teeth with a conventional toothbrush at the earliest half an hour after eating in the evening.
It is usually the case that sweet and highly acidic foods and drinks are consumed for breakfast. If you brush your teeth after breakfast, your tooth enamel will suffer in the long run. If, on the other hand, you brush your teeth before breakfast, you can mineralize them beforehand, for example, with our emmi®-dent ultrasonic toothpaste enriched with calcium, which was specially formulated for our emmi®-dent ultrasonic toothbrushes. If you supply your teeth with minerals half an hour before eating, you make them more resistant to acid attack.
When using a conventional toothbrush, it is advisable to clean your teeth after breakfast only with emmi®-dent dental floss or emmi®-dent interdental brushes. Drink a glass of water to neutralize the pH value in your mouth and effectively protect your teeth from erosion.
Leading dentists recommend thorough tooth cleaning and oral hygiene after eating, especially in the evening. Uncleaned, acids and bacteria have an easy time overnight and can damage teeth and tooth enamel undisturbed.
emmi®-dent Dental Hygiene Guide for evening dental care:
- Brush teeth thoroughly before going to bed
- Clean tongue with a tongue cleaner or a special tongue brush
- Dental floss and interdental brushes for cleaning interdental spaces
- Routinize and adhere to brushing times
If you follow these recommendations, you will create the best conditions for dental health well into old age. Our tip: Not only acids and harmful bacteria, but also vigorous scrubbing and pressure – i.e. abrasive brushing behavior – can permanently damage your tooth enamel. Therefore, use our emmi®-dent ultrasonic toothbrush, which is gentle on your teeth and gums. Together with the emmi®-dent Platinum brush attachment, it represents a very good alternative to conventional toothbrushes – against sore gums and sensitive teeth. With emmi®-dent you brush without pressure and abrasions.
