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Originally Posted by lukeh
My wife does that and I tell her it's gross and I don't get it. You scrub the junk off your teeth but then leave it in your mouth? That's like soaping up your car then not rinsing the dirty soap off it. Sure, some of the dirty soap will blow off when you drive but you know some is going to dry on and stay stuck in the cracks.
When she washes her hair she rinses, when she washes her hands she rinses, when she washes her faces she rinses...but for some reason the mouth falls into a different category.
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When I had braces, my orthodontist recommended the same thing. You rinse your brush, not your mouth. It supposedly keeps a thin protective layer of toothpaste on your teeth for a little bit. I still do it out of habit from the 2 years I had braces.