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leraje, in What are your dental hygiene tips and hacks
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Try not to accidentally lose your gum shield in a scrum, ruck or maul.

ArghZombies, in What are your dental hygiene tips and hacks

All the advances in toothcare seems to be around fancier electric brushes or other gadgets, but regardless we’ve never been able to move away from ‘brush for 2 minutes’. I want some fancy device I just bite down on and it zaps my whole mouth clean in 5 seconds.

Scubus,

Just pull the transformer out of your microwave, aim it at your face, and open your mouth

Chee_Koala,

a UV flashbang pill? multi-laser drone?? Never ask an AI for dental products again? https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/fab70646-d1a7-44d5-8789-7b03cb0fdb33.png

OceanSoap,

Gently, cleaning zaps.

Sign me up!

user224, in What are your dental hygiene tips and hacks
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Yep, you shouldn’t rinse your mouth, because a proper toothpaste has fluoride, which helps remineralize enamel. Keep in mind it won’t restore already decayed enamel though.

Anyway, I am not that sure about electric toothbrushes. At least it’s not necessary. On Wednesday when I’ve been on dental check-up, I asked my dentist whether electric toothbrush would be a good idea. She said “Well… it can be… but you already do pretty good job of cleaning your teeth, so I just recommend you stick to that.” I just use a regular toothbrush. However, just the brushing does take me a while. About 10-12 minutes. Yeah.

Well, something that could be a tip is xylitol chewing gum. Most sugar-free gums use xylitol. It is artificial sweetener that’s actually good for teeth. It helps remineralize teeth like fluoride, remove plaque build up, and it kills acid-producing bacteria. That is because the bacteria consumes it like regular sugar, but it can’t process it, so it just dies. You can also buy xylitol as a powder, because it’s, well, a sweetener.

Now to the disadvantages of xylitol: Consuming larger amounts (I think it’s just around 25g) can cause diarrhea and cramps. It is also extremely toxic to dogs. Just 100mg/1kg can cause them seizures and 500mg/1kg can cause death. Obviously that’s just approximate, so keep your dog away from xylitol.

Disclaimer: I am not a professional in this field.

bakachu,

I do the xylitol gum! I think countries in asia regularly markets this as part of good dental hygiene for those reasons you listed. Some of the gum containers advertise, white healthy teeth. Not sure why the US doesn’t promote xylitol gum more.

spacecowboy,

The USA wants sick and diseased citizens because it’s good for the economy.

ryannathans,

10-12 minutes??? You’re going to get toothbrush abraisions

scytale,

On electric toothbrushes, my hygienist basically told me: Imagine how many times you go back and forth manually with your hand when brushing. Now compare that to how many times an electric toothbrush can do the same in the same time frame. So the latter is more effective.

HollandJim,

Electric toothbrushes are excellent for stimulating the gums and keeping them in good order so they don’t recede. The Sonicare are especially good for this reason.

southsamurai, in What's a proper response to another dog attempting to mount your dog multiple times and the owner really not doing anything about it?
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“Oi, fuckstick! Mind your dog!”

GreenEnigma,

This.

People are inherently irresponsible. Dog owners, not all but many, simply think having the animal makes it a pet.

Call that motherfucker out on his irresponsible behavior not tending his own animal.

Ufo_kid, in Lets start a new Lemmy holiday tradition. What's a song you've been digging lately?

Bells, bows, gifts, trees - Todrick Hall

open.spotify.com/track/1tgQ9XHgJT4up8z9Xe3XpI?si=…

lazylion_ca, (edited )

I really liked The Wizard of Ahhs melody he did with Pentatonix.

die444die,

I cant deal with him after seeing what a shitty person he was when he was on big brother. 🤮

carcus, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

This is an odd one. Deep Africa is an episode from an obscure series called Inflated, which came out some 20 years ago. I remember someone at a party having a VHS of it.

It features blowup dolls as the main characters. It’s been a very long time since I’ve seen it, probably hasn’t aged well, but I remember aspects of it being funny, if not absurd.

youtu.be/nZIpv6TaBE8

lazylion_ca, (edited ) in Lets start a new Lemmy holiday tradition. What's a song you've been digging lately?

I’ll start.

Recently discovered: Nightwish, Last ride of the day

Recently rediscovered as it just came up on my playlist: Mick Jagger, Sweet Thing

edit: Someone just introduced me to Vancanto covering Fear of the Dark. I didn’t think a cappella metal was possible.

Gimpydude, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio. It was a tex based strategy game on the TRS 80 written in basic. You played a feudal lord and tried to grow your empire. Each turn was a year. It was a text only game, but I’m pretty sure they had a graphics version at one point. When I say graphics, it was the upper half of the ASCII character set mapped over to block characters. This was in the 70’s.

orangeNgreen, in Lets start a new Lemmy holiday tradition. What's a song you've been digging lately?
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A Million Dreams from The Greatest Showman soundtrack.

Sarsaparilla,
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I sent my kids nuts playing that soundtrack on rotation. lol.

Kolanaki, in Lets start a new Lemmy holiday tradition. What's a song you've been digging lately?
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I can’t get Addict from Hazbin Hotel outta my fuckin’ head. 😵‍💫

farcaster, in Lets start a new Lemmy holiday tradition. What's a song you've been digging lately?

I’ve been playing the new Hellripper album a lot. Throwback speed metal like it’s the 80s again

Hellripper - I, The Deceiver

leraje, (edited )
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If you like Hellripper, you might want to give Pest Control a blast. Modern take on 80’s crossover thrash.

farcaster,

Sick riffs. Thanks.

synae,
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Check out Bewitcher also

dutchkimble, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

Operation Sandman, amazing movie with Ron perlman and also the adventures of Pete and Pete

AlfredEinstein,

Pete & Pete was awesome.

I tried watching it on DVD a few years ago, and it hasn’t held up as well as I’d hoped. But the cameos are still worth it.

bakachu, in What are your dental hygiene tips and hacks

This is for all my floss-averse people out there: put floss plackers in your car. I floss way more this way than in front of my sink. Yes, not optimal dental hygiene but there’s just something that just clicks in my head and makes me want to do it when driving around vs literally any other time.

CannedCairn,

I do this

PP_BOY_,
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I’m glad that you’ve found a routine to help you floss but reading this made my whole body shiver. Do you floss while you’re driving? And what do you do with the floss picker when you’re done???

bakachu,

Yep, while driving, stopped, or parked and trapped in the car with whatever task is involved in the commute. I keep a little trash container in the car for normal trash and just chuck the placker in there when done.

SorteKanin,
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This doesn’t sound as bad as using your phone but you really shouldn’t take either hand off the steering wheel for more than a second to change gear or adjust something on the dash. This practice sounds too dangerous for the convenience it brings.

Easyy,

bro… PLEASE do not do anything but driving while driving!!!

metalsonic00, in What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?

Pigskin footbrawl

Edgarallenpwn,
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This channel has played most games on this post

guyrocket, in What are your dental hygiene tips and hacks
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Tips I have learned over the years. In priority order.

  1. Buy a sonicare toothbrush. They are supposed to be better than even Oral B because of the sound waves they produce. May seem expensive but far cheaper than almost any dental procedure. Studies have shown that electric toothbrushes clean better than manual.
  2. Brush daily.
  3. If you cannot brush one day at least use a flouride mouthwash.
  4. Do not use water on your toothbrush. Something in water hinders the effectiveness of flouride.
  5. Do not rinse your mouth with water after brushing. Leave that toothpaste on your teeth.
  6. Buy a water pik and use it. They clean better than flossing.
leraje,
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Do not use water on your toothbrush. Something in water hinders the effectiveness of flouride.

TIL, thank you.

arin,

No it’s a lie, the government actually adds fluoride to tap water.

ryannathans, (edited )

Yeah you swallow all that sweet fluoride, tin, titanium and other shit in your toothpaste. I’ve never had a cavity and will continue to rinse

SorteKanin,
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It’s a very small quantity of stuff that your body can easily manage to break down or expel. And you not having a cavity ever is just survivorship bias.

arin, (edited )

There’s a number for poison control on the tube if you do not want to rinse

SorteKanin,
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I have never seen this but I may not have noticed - is this an American thing?

In any case, that’s only there in case a child gulps down the whole tube, which might indeed be bad. Doesn’t mean a small quantity is bad.

arin,

Yes actually. In some European and Asian countries they don’t add fluoride but dental health is still better than Americans

douglasg14b,
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Just like everything else, things are poisonous based on the quantity consumed.

If you’re downing entire tubes of toothpaste yeah you’re going to make yourself sick.

TheInsane42,
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Can confirm 1. At least for me it worked great. They make a lot less noice then the oral-b with the rotating head and the head is a lot smaller. The smaller head enables me to reach all teeth.

garbagebagel,

Wondering if you have a source on 6. My hygienist said they’re better than nothing, but flossing is still better than water piks.

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