Do you brush your teeth before drinking?

Problem solved.

 

Where has this been all my life? Oh yeah, in the 50s...

 

See even back then no one wanted minty beer lol.

 

You just need to use the good stuff and one less worry about mint/beer conflict, keeps life simple.

 

My wife goes to bed before me, because she gets up early to train clients. I often brush when she goes to bed before heading downstairs to read or watch tv. I try to wait a while and usually don't try new beers after brushing. If I don't wait long enough, the beer tastes minty. It's not cool, man. But I have to brush. Now, sometimes, I take my toothbrush and toothpaste downstairs and brush after I drink. But then I either have to very quietly put it back in the bathroom when I go to bed or leave it downstairs overnight. If I leave it downstairs I'll be annoyed in the morning when I go to brush and they're not there. This is complicated, people. There are serious issues to consider. Maybe I should get an extra toothbrush and toothpaste for the bathroom downstairs. But my wife might me annoyed by that. Ugg. I have so many issues here. Tonight I brushed at about 8pm then had a beer about 9pm. It was fine. But should I brush after I drink? What am I doing to my teeth? Hopefully some others have some answers for me.

This is a great thread. I can't believe it took this long for someone to come up with it. This could solve a lot of problems for me.

 

in my case, it's SBtSS - shit, brushm shower, then shave. By the time I get downstairs, the toothpaste has faded so I can drink my morning orange juice without that nasty taste.

 

Nooooo (speaking from experience)

 

When I feel I'm going to partake soon after brushing, I use less toothpaste, rinse like hell, and cleanse the palate with some food before drinking fine fermentations.

 

I did... the first a study on socio-economics related to dental health, tooth brushing was a tangential topic. it was also a statistical study of studies, so they didn't actually do any of their own controlled testing, trials, screening for bias, etc., which could explain how inconclusive the results were... garbage in, garbage out.

The other study was an interesting analysis of other risk factors, but the first factor discussed was bacteria "strongly linked with the progression of adult periodontitis," [which is why we brush and floss teeth]. I think you're cherry-picking evidence. I'll listen to my dentist, but you do you.

 

Just make it beer flavored and we're off to the races. Problem solved.

 

The paper is titled: Socioeconomic Status and Selected Behavioral Determinants as Risk Factors for Dental Caries, so it is not JUST about socio-economics. Please also look at the inclusion/exclusion criteria, in that: three thousand one hundred thirty-eight abstracts were identified, 358 reviewed, and 272 papers included in the systematic review, which means that less than 9% of the studies identified actually met the criteria for the meta-analysis. In other words, there isn't much garbage in this study and just because you rely on the work of others doesn't make your conclusions any less accurate.

I'm not the one cherry picking and you are making a multi-factorial situation much, much more simple that it actually is. From the paper: Chronic periodontitis involves complex interactions between microbial factors and susceptible hosts. In other words, it's not JUST bacteria, as you would like us to believe. Also, for you to say that brushing one's teeth without flourinated toothpaste reduces bacteria as well brushing with it is demonstrably incorrect.

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-83242014000200001

Is your dentist published? Is he or she aware of the actual science out there or are they telling people that you can prevent dental and periodontal disease by just brushing and flossing?

 

I read most of the posts yesterday. Two things:

1) when I first met my wife, we were young, and as a young man who grew up in a household without much structure, I was a disgusting man. She had to teach me good oral hygiene/convince me to do it. My argument was simple: when I wake up, we have coffee immediately after brushing my teethe. Everything tastes bad after that.

I think I may have learned to live with this at first, but at some point I found a toothpaste that actually makes my mouth feel clean. It also leaves me with no noticeable aftertaste for food or liquid after about 5 minutes. I still have coffee about 15 minutes after I brush every morning, and never any complaints. Coffee always tastes amazing and clean, pure.

2) my first instinct when reading this was no, I would not. After more carefully considering coffee, I think I would - given the toothpaste I use, as long as it was at least 5-10 minutes out.

There have been days where I feel like my palate may not be clean enough to appreciate a beer that I have not had before (perhaps due to some strong flavors earlier in the day), and as a result, I steer clear of those beers on those days. Makes sense some people would want to clean their mouth prior.

 

Having a hard time determining your exact thoughts, but in the defense against this article, the only thing this article really does is aggregate. It's hard to make sense of so many studies with so many different confounding variables with so many different methods and procedures. The most I'd ever give this article or one like it is "There is some data that suggests XXX." In my opinion, there's not much more to be garnered.

That's not to say other aggregated studies aren' worth-while. They can be, but it all depends what the authors choose to do. The authors don't seem very selective - probably because there would be very few papers to then aggregate. I'm not sure that I have read a paper before where longitudinal and simple cross sectional studies were combined - normally you'd take each independently and look at what all the longitudinal studies tell you vs all the cross sectional.

 

Yes, I often brush my teeth. I brush in the morning and evening anyways, so why not brush to cleanse your palate? Rinse your mouth well, wait a few minutes, and you have a clean palate. Is this always necessary? No. But many days there is a residual taste from everything ingested earlier.

 

I never drink so close to me waking up in the morning, but if I did, I would brush and just wait 10-15min or whatever and all would be good.

 

Why would I wash my hands if I was within 15 minutes of doing mechanic work on my car?

I wouldn't brush if I'd be drinking within half an hour with the only caveat being if I was going on a date, but at that point, I'm not there to focus on the beer.

 

We get a lot of tourists at our breweries. Sometimes they say the beer doesn’t taste the same as last night? The same exact beers mind you. I always ask did you just chew gum or brush and the answer is always yes. It’s like drinking orange juice after you brush. Yuck.
McGirt

 

God no, because it screws up my palate for at least an hour or so, but paging @SeanBond

 

Just drink a toothpaste mint flavored stout afterwards and you won't notice (god, I hope that's not a real thing...)

 

Never in my life did I expect 2 pages about brushing teeth LOL. Dam