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You know what'd be a great invention?


Necro

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A gum that you could use instead of brushing your teeth. I don't know how you'd make it work, if it'd release something that interacts with saliva when you chew it or if you'd actually rub it against your teeth while chewing it or what, but between brushing, rinsing, and everything else, you probably use at least 5-10 minutes brushing your teeth on an average day between morning and night. Probably closer to 15 if you're thorough. It doesn't sound like much, but imagine how great those free 10 minutes would be if instead of getting up and brushing your teeth, you could sleep in longer/keep doing what you're doing at night, except chew a stick of gum for five minutes while you're getting dressed in the morning/finishing up for the night.

 

I have no idea if this would work and if it would how you would make it work, but I feel like it'd be amazing if you could figure it out. Now if only there was a way to make flossing more efficient...

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Prolly wouldn't work, since dental hygene seems to require vigorous physical scrubbing. I doubt any gum could realistically pull it off.

 

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Unless you had bristles in the gum and could just move it around in your moth

then again that'd be so horribly uncomfortable i'd rather just use a toothbrush

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"Here, chew on a sea urchin. The venom in the spikes has the added benefit of numbing your mouth as it scrubs away the plaque. You might not survive the experience, but you'll have clean teeth!"

 

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Actually, I've heard chewing a piece of gum can work as a short term substitute to teeth brushing. Obviously it isn't ideal though. And it obviously needs to be sugar free.

 

On a somewhat related note, I know a guy who will squirt toothpaste in his mouth and swish it around as an alternative. So there's that.

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Actually, I've heard chewing a piece of gum can work as a short term substitute to teeth brushing. Obviously it isn't ideal though. And it obviously needs to be sugar free.

 

On a somewhat related note, I know a guy who will squirt toothpaste in his mouth and swish it around as an alternative. So there's that.

Sugar free would probably be worse. Depending on what they're using for sweetener, they're even more acidic and harder on teeth than sugar is.

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