I almost always read in the news/press that dentists recommend to brush teeth two times a day for 2-3 minutes.

This drives me crazy, because it does not make sense; The point for dental health is to systematical clean every surface of your teeth twice a day (and use inter-dental brushes/floss once a day). For me, brushing my teeth takes around 6 minutes, if I hurry up. For someone faster it might be possible in 1 minute.

So, why do dentists always give the 2-3 minutes recommendation?

  • inetknght@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    https://kagi.com/search?q=pubmed+download+full+text

    -> https://www.nlm.nih.gov/oet/ed/pubmed/quicktours/fulltext/index.html

    It looks like the two articles I linked don't have free sources available. You might also search for the co-authors of the studies -- for example the first author in the first study has other citations https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Creeth+JE&filter=simsearch2.ffrft with full text available. You could download those, obtain the author's contact information, and send a request for a copy of the one you want. Just be nice about it :) If that doesn't work then maybe you have a friend with a "subscription" to download such things... from school or work or... something.