brushin’ them teeth

Recently I changed my tooth brushing technique.

as a child, I always finished brushing by spitting, rinsing the toothbrush in cold water, and then filling a cup with cold water and swishing/cleaning my mouth out.

A few weeks ago, I switched from cold water to warm water. What an interesting experience. First, I have no idea why I used cold water for 23 years of my life. Warm water is so much better. It doesn’t Bite like the cold water does, and it’s equally as refreshing. Does everyone use warm water? am I just late jumping on the bandwagon? Or… perhaps I’m the start of a new revolution. A revolution for the betterment of brushing enjoyment.

8 thoughts on “brushin’ them teeth

  • 2/22/2005 at 4:36 pm
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    warm water? i’ve done it before, but not on purpose… not pleasant.

    I go for the full sonicaire + cold water + toothpaste treatement, which (if you try it) will make your gums bleed for 2 weeks but you’ll be better for it!

    Sonic waves are the future.

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  • 2/22/2005 at 4:40 pm
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    Okay, so I need some education. Does the “SonicCare” toothbrush actually use sound waves to clean your teeth? Or is it just a clever misnomer?

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  • 2/22/2005 at 5:11 pm
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    I’ve been brushing and rinsing with luke warm water for years. I have sensitive teeth
    so doing it with cold water hurts.

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  • 2/22/2005 at 5:14 pm
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    Right on Pam! Luke Warm or Bust!

    Shaun: yes, I believe it actually uses magical dental sound waves to break up unwanted plaques and nastiness

    Ben: Jesse has a sonicare. Every time he brushes he hums harmonies with the toothbrush. It teeters between really funny and really annoying.

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  • 2/22/2005 at 8:06 pm
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    I like to use the cold water. The colder the better. Why you ask? Cold water stems the bleeding that my furious brushing produces. Perhaps if I didn’t attack my teeth and gums with such gusto, warm water would be acceptable, but I’m afraid warm water would lead to me passing out in the bathroom from blood loss.

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  • 2/23/2005 at 8:32 am
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    I don’t believe that SonicCare uses soundwaves in your mouth. All the commercials I see just shows the brush vibrating madly. And I can’t find any proof of sound waves being generated to clean your teeth on the web. As far as I can tell, the SonicCare toothbrush just vibrates fast. No sound waves involved.

    This makes me angry.

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  • 2/23/2005 at 10:14 am
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    Vibration is all that soundwaves are, the ones we hear are just in a specific frequency range. http://www.sonicare.com/discover/how_works/default.asp the “3 times faster” they talk about there probably puts the vibration into the “sonic” range that we can hear, of course plastic bristles aren’t a good object to compress air with, so any sonics off the bristles would be muffled if at all audible.

    Also does Sonic use soundwaves to cook their burgers?

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  • 2/23/2005 at 1:41 pm
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    Sound burgers! brilliant!

    The sonicaire also has a magical recharging base it sits in to recharge its batteries… but there are no metal contacts on the base or the brush… magic, i tell you!

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