The Protocols of the Elders of Toothbrush

[Ysh]

Hello and greetings I extend to you now my friends,

I have come to you asking some more question with, of course, much import! This topic is of toothbrush and strategy of toothbrushing. From my understanding, it is ideal to brush these teeth once after each session of eating consumption. Many men will not have will and ability to do this, however, but I do hope the men of this forum will find time to brush at least two time per day. As I am always saying, a man must only brush the ones he will like to keep! Grown adult man will only get one set of these ivories to last him the entire duration of his live. This is meaning he has powerful incentive to take care and prevent them from rot out of his head, else it will make ingestion much more of the challenge.

I am not sure typical age of forum user, but if will we assume it is similar to global median age, which is allegedly around 30 year, we can do some calulation.
30 years aged * 365.25 day per year * 2 toothbrushed per day = 21,915 times teeth are brushed so far! Surely this is enough for typical forum man to know his way around this toothbrush. A true elder of toothbrush!

Furthermore, it is usual to use some paste to assist with this brushing. Here is the exhibit:

One interest fact is that this image is actual just propaganda! It is not necessary to cover whole surface of brush with paste in this way. One pea sized amount is necessary to clean this adult size chompers. Image such as this is created, distributed, and perpetuated by BIG TOOTHPASTE company in order to trick consumer into squander his paste so he will buy more. With these profits, there is no doubt that these company will do some nefarious things. After all, if this company propaganda can convince you to dispose of your dollars in exchange for worthless paste, what else it can convince you to do?

Other important property of this paste is that it must not be swallowed. According to Dr. Vicki Kotsirilos:

We are not sure of the dangers of swallowing toothpaste, so it’s advised that anyone, children or adults, should not swallow it.

This is sounding very bad to me! True nature of danger of swallow toothpaste evades even modern medical science. I assume this mean it could do very bad thing, like increase density of your bones beyond limit, until their incredible weight will cause them to tear themselves from your muscles and tendons. Further, it is seen reason for this caution of toothpaste consumption is contents of it:

Toothpaste contains fluoride, as well as a number of inactive substances that while not necessarily poisonous, are not intended for regular human consumption.

This flouride is some toxic substance that I suppose a man should avoid consuming. Unless he will live in one of country that will put it in their water. I guess maybe in these region of world, it is not bad for you. I think this is similar to duffel bag I buy one time that tells me it will give me cancer if I live in California.

Now that we have some background out the way, we can discuss these protocols that you elders of toothbrush have construct in your years of teethbrushing. I have do some of my own research by asking the men around me how they will dispose of this mouthful of toothpaste they find themselves with after brushing session. Answer I have seen so far is these:

1. Cup hand under faucet to bring water to mouth to rinse
2. Stick head under faucet and suck up water to rinse
3. Buy little one-time use paper cup to keep near faucet to fill with water to bring to mouth to rinse
4. Rinse toothbrush and then after it is clean, suck water from bristles to rinse
5. Keep ordinary (glass, plastic, clay) cup near faucet to fill with water to bring to mouth to rinse
6. Spit out as much as possible, then ignore any leftover

Right now my personal strategy is strategy #1. In past, I have used strategy #2, but one time I grow my hair to be long and if I tried this it will get wet. Also sometimes this faucet will be too small for me to fit underneath it. These limitation of strategy #2 have caused me to adopt strategy #1.

Naturally now I will like to hear from all of my fellow forum friends! Which stratagem you will employ to eliminate this paste from your mouth? Have you changed stratagems in past as I have? What has caused this switching? Thanks much for your generous consideration!

[MagicManICT]

Simple solution: get rid of your teeth, then you never have to worry about this again!

[Ysh]

Simple solution: get rid of your teeth, then you never have to worry about this again!

Surely you must still brush gums in this case?

[MagicManICT]

Everyone I know with dentures just uses mouthwash and cleans their dentures at night, though there is that whole thing about "brushing your tongue" to help deal with bacteria.

[Ysh]

Everyone I know with dentures just uses mouthwash and cleans their dentures at night, though there is that whole thing about "brushing your tongue" to help deal with bacteria.

Interesting, this mouthwash must be powerful stuff! You are trying to obfuscate that you also wear denture? If no, which strategy you will use to rinse mouth after brush the teeth?

[MagicManICT]

I read somewhere about how much fluorine the body can deal with on a daily basis, and you'd have to eat the whole tube of toothpaste to consume that much. Unless you're fluorine sensitive, of course. And in that case, you're going to have some serious gastrointestinal issues due to the amount of soap you just ate. For those fluorine sensitive, even the trace amounts in drinking water can cause serious health problems.

Spit out excess, rinse with mouthwash like is recommended, and who needs water after that?

And a cup in the bathroom? Gross. Has anyone ever actually seen how much spray goes on in there? (Though they say the kitchen has even more germs than the average bathroom.)

Unless he will live in one of country that will put it in their water.

The trace amounts in the water are helpful to the general public health. Should the government be going this far? That is another question, but the health benefits cannot be disputed.

[Burinn]

Wow, what a post.

[Ysh]

Spit out excess, rinse with mouthwash like is recommended, and who needs water after that?

Yes, if you are using this mouthwash then I think you will have no need for water. In this case I assume you will use cap to deposit it into mouth.

And a cup in the bathroom? Gross. Has anyone ever actually seen how much spray goes on in there? (Though they say the kitchen has even more germs than the average bathroom.)

Certainly I do not store cups in my bathroom. Though I think there is germs everywhere in general. In most cases the men seem to get along fine despite this.

[Granger]

(Though they say the kitchen has even more germs than the average bathroom.)

There had been some scientists testing the kitchens of student shared apartments and ones ran by bourgeois housewifes from a bacterial standpoint:
Result was that, while not looking that good, you could basically eat from the floor of the student kitchens without getting into serious troubles while the housewife ones were way more dangerous - as the bacteria there had been selected for resistance through being repeatedly and continually treated with all the nice anti-bacterial stuff that's so in these days... but there are always some that survive and mutate to like all these nicely colored fluids they're fed with.

[MrPunchers]

No mention of flossing? Nor scrubbing your tongue? I don't know if it's just me, but my mouth would be gross without doing either. Also tonsil stones. Dental health is more then just brushing and mouthwash! Oh and yeah #2 is best strat for rinsing mouth.