Scared Straight: Elementary School Edition

[papa_squat]

When I was about 6 or so, I remembered an assembly for the first grade on basic hygiene. In the dental care part, this one guy had a slide show with germs and sugar molecules beating up the innocent, cartoon teeth, and he instructed to brush your teeth within thirty minutes of every meal to keep your teeth clean, because sugar and germs begin

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[squixy]

You do know you can brush the enamel off of your teeth if you brush too much/too hard, right?

I'm a bit of an obsessive brusher as well.

[papa_squat]

I know, I try not to push with the brush as I'm brushing. Plus I don't use the fancy cross-bristled brushes because they are supposedly more likely to scrape the enamel. I don't think brushing two or three times a day does that kind of damage. I'm definitely not as passionate about brushing my teeth in a marathon fashion as I used to be.

I think part of it is I never got braces like I was supposed because my parents got divorced the year I was supposed to get them, and things like braces were added to the list of arguments that sat around in court, so I never got them. But I figure if I never have straight teeth, I'll be fine as long as I have clean, white teeth.

Hooray! I bet everyone is jealous of our clean teeth.