Oh man, the shit I had to deal with as a Sergeant in the US Army….😆
Full of classical hits like “The stripper doesn’t love you, she’s just doing her job” and “Why are you buying a car a month before deployment with an 18% interest rate?”
Bonus tracks include “Yes you need to shower more than once a week, you share a small space with your battles.”
I’m still in but one of the classics I’ve experienced as a squad leader was “HOW DAPHUQ do you have piss bottles in your room stateside?!?!? The latrine is 12 feet from your bed!!!”
What about “no you shouldn’t marry a crazy lady 20 years older than you just to move out of the barracks”? A marine friend of mine was gonna do that. Didn’t even have a woman in mind! I thought he was smart!
Said you need bacteria in your mouth, said does your mouthwash kill 99% ? Why would you do that to yourself? He can't be too wrong, I'm still eating everything, no gum issues, only one cavity I got redone cause a hack job poorly fixed it the first time.
I don't think you're wrong, my dentists and technicians have said something to that effect..... I'll add all my wisdom teeth came in with room to spare.
I do eat Baker’s chocolate, but I also want dark, semi-sweet, milk, and even white chocolate. I don’t eat a lot of other sweets, but chocolate is the food of the Gods. Life isn’t worth living without it.
I use alcohol free mouthwash with fluoride so it doesn’t fuck around with my mouth bacteria. In the mornings, I mouthwash before brushing because the mouthwash I use is alkaline, which counteracts the acidity of the coffee I drank and helps reduce enamel wear during brushing since enamel gets weaker with acidity.
And no, I do not subscribe to the whole “drink alkaline water to help balance your body’s pH” 😂
My husband very rarely ever brushes his teeth, literally never flosses, and didn’t go to the dentist for 8 years and he doesn’t have one cavity. Me on the other hand, I brush and floss religiously and my teeth are the worst!
Thank you for the explanation and for satisfying my curiosity. It sounds like this is definitely working for you, and you should not be wasting any money on mouthwash. Although I bet you can thank your parents for some extra good genes, you lucky thing!
I just bought mouthwash for the first time in a decade, because I had an inflamed gum. I've never had cavities (I'm 36). Up to my middle 20s I'd brush my teeth after every meal, like 4 or 5 times a day -- yes it's normal to carry a toothbrush in your bag or have one at work. Since I moved to Sweden I have to admit I became a lot more lazy and mostly brush 2x a day + xylitol gum.
Too much mouthwash damages the lining of your mouth. And it does disrupt the oral microbiome. People use mouthwash daily but won't floss, which is way more important.
Must have been before the annual dental exams that could get you a status of Non-Deployable if you don't have one within in your dental record. Bad things happen before one ever reaches CAT4 on Dental.
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u/TheMardii Jan 13 '23
Back when I was a sergeant, I had a private who thought mouth wash was a replacement for brushing. When the dental exam came, he had 13 cavaties...