Am I the only one who did not know about this?
I want to share with you an absolute game changer for your dental hygiene, it is 2025 and I am seeing more and MORE people with abysmal teeth. Like stuff is built up so thick you could see it, do people brush their teeth anymore?
Orthodontic Toothbrush
There is it!
I could have sworn I had gum disease with the way my gums were receding. But one day I took a closer look, and saw at my gum line there was stuff my toothbrush missed. This is where I was receding. If I went in there and tried picking it out, there would be this gunk. Imagine eating a mouthful of baby powder and getting it stuck in all the nooks and crannys. Which is tough, because not only was my hairline receding now my gums were too. And I was not using just any old toothbrush either, this was one of those fancy vibrating, 5-mode, rechargeable, water-proof, whatever toothbrushes.
But these orthodontic brushes, if you stick it right in the gum line you'll be able to get all of it out. You don't even need to have orthodontics or whatever that is, I am too lazy to Google it but I am using them on my plain old natural teeth. This has been amazing, it was like using a small soft-bristle brush to detail the interior of a car.
Shower Mirror
Around the same time I thought of these brushes... another idea hit me. A shower mirror.
Something you could stick to the wall and get a good close up look at those chompers, actually my original plan was to use a shower mirror to water pick my teeth. I don't know how people do it or maybe my mouth had holes in it, but I simply cannot use a water pick without water getting absolutely everywhere. Hence, my idea to do it all in the shower!
Being able to see what you are doing is much better than going by feel, and after a week or so of picking at my gums, it seems to really like what I'm doing. My gums look less red and more pink, the swelling flattened out making them come back down to cover up roots which were exposed. My teeth was looking healthier too.
The main thing which concerned me was how "sick" it looked. Right at the gum line it just didn't look right and I knew something was wrong. Like your teeth isn't supposed to look like that, it concerned me enough to schedule a dentist visit and start doing something.
Overall, these brushes excel at getting the fresh stuff out. But you still need a dentist for the buildup that has solidified. For that stuff, you need to physically scrape it off with a metal tool and I am for sure not qualified.