do you brush teeth/face or eat breakfast first in the morning?

[Anonymous]

Gym first, then shower/brush teeth (I brush in the shower), eat breakfast at work an hr later.

[Anonymous]

I brush first because I can't stand the way my mouth feels otherwise; I have my kids brush after breakfast. I don't think it matters much either way. I think my hygienist said the main medical point of brushing is to disrupt the plaque, so it doesn't build up. Timing is less important than frequency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I always thought the point of brushing your teeth was to get food remnants off so they can't just sit there and rot on your teeth. So assuming that you brush your teeth before you go to bed, why would you then brush again immediately after getting up? Wouldn't your teeth be clean at at point? But eating breakfast gets food on your teeth, so it is again necessary to brush, right? Otherwise, unless you brush twice each morning (and who has time for that in the AM rush), you'll have breakfast food on your teeth all the way though lunch (unless you don't brush after lunch, at which point you have gone with milk or whatever you ate for breakfast on your teeth all day long!)

Do you have a mouth?

[Anonymous]

LOL PP!

We do it the same way you do OP.

[Anonymous]

I usually brush then eat, because I eat an hour or so after getting up. I don't usually want to eat breakfast at 5 am.

Supposedly that's better, because if you eat without brushing all of the bacteria that's been growing in your mouth has a literal explosion. If you brush and get rid of the bacteria before eating it's better for your teeth.

With kids it usually works out smoother for them to eat then brush teeth before or after getting dressed.

[Anonymous]

I brush first. Too skeeved out by my own funk to wait until after eating. It never occurred to me there would be another way. Educational thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i brush my kids teeth/face after they get out of the bed, then send them down for breakfast.

however, out of blue this morning my pre-K boy said to me "you eat breakfast then brush teeth," and said his teacher Mrs. Brown said so.

i'm from another country and that's how my family did it. i'm curious if most/many American families do it the other way around.

tks!

eat first then brush.

[Anonymous]

on weekends, I eat first, then brush teeth before I leave the house. On weekday mornings, I brush my teeth first because I eat breakfast at the office. (If I feel like there's food in my teeth after that, I have little disposable floss picks I can use.)

[Anonymous]

FBFNFTM wrote:In my country we brush teeth after every single meal.

When I first started working as a nanny I got scolded by MB for requiring the kids to brush teeth after snacks/lunch.

I still brush after every single meal. And to answer OP's question, in our house we first eat then brush.

I found really gross to learn that the kids went to school with left over b-fast between the teeth! Blech!

It's nice that you have time to brush after every meal in "your country." Start living in the real world and that habit will quickly die. Just get some Orbit and you'll be fine.

[Anonymous]

brush first so I can taste my food

[Anonymous]

Can't stand feeling of a "stagnant" mouth after hours of rest .. So I brush, wait a bit (don't eat immediately after brushing), and will brush again after, for cleanliness

[Anonymous]

I hate brushing my teeth. Really, really hate it. I have to force myself to do it once a day, sometimes twice.

I have gotten a lot better with flossing though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always thought the point of brushing your teeth was to get food remnants off so they can't just sit there and rot on your teeth. So assuming that you brush your teeth before you go to bed, why would you then brush again immediately after getting up? Wouldn't your teeth be clean at at point? But eating breakfast gets food on your teeth, so it is again necessary to brush, right? Otherwise, unless you brush twice each morning (and who has time for that in the AM rush), you'll have breakfast food on your teeth all the way though lunch (unless you don't brush after lunch, at which point you have gone with milk or whatever you ate for breakfast on your teeth all day long!)

Do you have a mouth?

Huh?

[Anonymous]

I grew up brushing before breakfast. I thought it seemed a little gross to eat with a dirty mouth. At some point (probably in college) I asked a dentist about it for some reason and he strongly recommended that I brush after eating. Makes sense. I adopted that routine and that's how I have the kids do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can sort of see brushing your teeth first if then brush again after you eat breakfast. But it sounds like a lot of people only brush once and it's before breakfast. Doesn't that leave your breakfast food in your teeth all day, plus coffee breath? I don't get it. . .

Kids eat first then brush. I, wake up brush teeth, shower, etc. get the kdis ready and out the door. go to the office have coffee and breakfast and then brush my teeth AGAIN afterwards. I don't want that nasty coffee breath and I LOVE coffee.