To ask when you brush your teeth in the morning?

[Liz1tummypain]

My DH has an odd ( to me) view on dental habits. He thinks it's best to brush your teeth before breakfast. I'm firmly of the after breakfast and before - you-leave- the- house camp. So what do you do ?.

YABU - Yes I brush them when I get up, before breakfast

YANBU - yes I brush them after breakfast

Thanks folk

I don’t eat breakfast so I brush them when I get up and am washing my face!

after

I don’t generally have breakfast but do have a cuppa before. Otherwise coffee and mint taste horrible

Definitely after breakfast! Cleans off any food and coffee breath 😂

Well your DH is right if you follow any official advice.

You should brush them before. Brushing too soon after a meal can damage your teeth (strange but true).

I prefer to clean them after breakfast so I feel nice and minty fresh but my dentist always tells me to do them before breakfast.

After, but I wait around 15 minutes after eating before I brush my teeth.

I prefer to brush after but it depends on the day if the week as I brush straight after my shower (which can be before or after breakfast)

2nd thing I do after getting out of bed. Loo then brush teeth.

Although we were taught after meals as children, I believe current feeling is that doing it straight after a meal rubs the acid into your teeth and should therefore be avoided.

That's not why I do it first though - I can't imagine doing anything until I have a fresh mouth.

Dentist would tell you before is better, but I prefer after. Gives you fresh breath for the morning

The advice is before or at least 30 minutes after, to the best of my recollection. Before for me.

Dentist told me to brush before. You need to remove the bacteria before you introduce food as that's when they do the damage.

You're supposed to brush before, because eating softens the enamel. You'd have to wait half and hour after eating to brush them. Who's got time for that on a morning?

My weekday morning routine is up, shower, dry, brush teeth, brush and blow dry hair, dress, go downstairs, take pre-prepped breakfast from fridge and eat it, wash up, put on coat and shoes, out the door.
This takes 30mins - there is no time for trips back up to the bathroom!
At the weekend its far more relaxed and breakfast is usually before shower, teeth, dress.

Depends if you are having sex before or after breakfast 😉

After breakfast. But it always at least 30 minutes after eating anyway.

Deffo before. You need to brush off the acid that builds up over night. Dentists recommend brushing before.

I would hate to be sat at breakfast smelling everyone's morning breath!!

I don’t have breakfast until I get to work so I brush mine after my morning shower. Dh gets up and has breakfast straight away, then his shower so he does his after breakfast.

My dentists says, before breakfast.

Wow, I must have missed something. I've never brushed my teeth in the morning. Only before bed (and sometimes before going out in an evening if it's special or I might be in close proximity to people, or just before I go to the dentist.)

Before breakfast on dentist's advise

*advice

This.

I brush before.

Dentists advise first thing. Brushing after breakfast can cause issues as your mouth is acidic for an hour after food and brushing during this phase damages your enamel over time. So it is better to brush when you wake up or at least an hour after you've eaten breakfast.