Boring question - do you brush your teeth before or after breakfast?

[Enid2001]

Or if you don't eat breakfast, do you brush your teeth before your tea/coffee?

Before according to dentist and orthodontist. You need to get rid of the overnight bacteria before it gets to work on your food and produces teeth damaging acids

First thing. You should never brush your teeth just after eating.

It depends. If I'm having breakfast at home I'll brush my teeth after I eat so I'm going about my day with a clean mouth. If I'm having breakfast at work or after I drop ds to nursery then I'll brush my teeth as soon as I get up.

Before. Get up, shower and brush teeth. I don't eat breakfast until later anyway, usually at my desk working

I asked my dentist whether it was more important to brush in the morning or before bed, and she said before bed.

Basically at night, because you're not doing much with your mouth, all the bacteria that eat leftover food particles come out and have a party and produce plaque (the soft white smelly stuff that accumulates on teeth). If left undisturbed, plaque will harden and over time this makes your teeth brown and your breath smell. If you have a deep clean at the dentist this is what they are scraping off.

So you brush your teeth at night to remove leftover food, but you brush your teeth in the morning to disturb and remove plaque. The plaque will be disturbed a bit anyway as you eat throughout the day and then again when you brush at night. But the best thing you can do is reduce the amount that your mouth bacteria are producing in the first place by reducing their food source as much as possible.

Before. I brush my teeth before I go downstairs.

Wake up, teeth and tablets before anything else. Then I usually do a rinse with mouthwash before I leave the house to freshen my tea breath.