Toothbrush or toothpaste

[Anonymous]

If you had to pick only one, which one is a must have: toothpaste or toothbrush?

[Anonymous]

Toothpaste. You can put it on a clean washcloth to brush your teeth.

[Anonymous]

Toothbrush. You can use baking soda or salt as toothpaste and the mechanical action will get your teeth clean.

[Anonymous]

Toothbrush. Use baking soda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Toothpaste. You can put it on a clean washcloth to brush your teeth.

Are you the "washcloth" poster from a different thread who was advising others to use washcloths?

[Anonymous]

Toothbrush, 100%. Brushing is far more vital to removing plaque than toothpaste. Gum health is vital.

However, the fluoride in toothpaste is pretty darn important as well. I suppose you could away with brushing and then a fluoride rinse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Toothpaste. You can put it on a clean washcloth to brush your teeth.

What color?

[Anonymous]

When we forgot our toothbrushes as kids my mom used to have us put toothpaste on our fingers and brush that way.

[Anonymous]

tooth paste for flouride

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Toothpaste. You can put it on a clean washcloth to brush your teeth.

Are you the "washcloth" poster from a different thread who was advising others to use washcloths?

No, I don’t use washcloths. This would be a last resort.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Toothbrush, 100%. Brushing is far more vital to removing plaque than toothpaste. Gum health is vital.

However, the fluoride in toothpaste is pretty darn important as well. I suppose you could away with brushing and then a fluoride rinse.

I thought we had fluoride in our drinking water?

[Anonymous]

The dentist answered this one for me years ago - he urged me to get an electric toothbrush, and not worry much at all about toothpaste - just the teeniest drop of the stuff, or none at all if I preferred.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The dentist answered this one for me years ago - he urged me to get an electric toothbrush, and not worry much at all about toothpaste - just the teeniest drop of the stuff, or none at all if I preferred.

Not everyone can get an electric one. So the answer is a toothbrush

[Anonymous]

Brush. But I would pick floss over either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The dentist answered this one for me years ago - he urged me to get an electric toothbrush, and not worry much at all about toothpaste - just the teeniest drop of the stuff, or none at all if I preferred.

whitening toothpaste doesn't actually do anything