And use toothpicks instead
You know how it is at the end of a long day. You stumble into the bathroom with barely enough energy to even wash your face. You see your toothbrush in the corner and think: You’ll skip the toothbrushing just for tonight.
As it turns out, your teeth can indeed afford to miss a night or two of brushing – a month. “The only impact might be on your relationship with your partner from the bad breath!” quipped Yap Xin Ying, a senior oral health therapist from National Dental Centre Singapore.
But consistently skipping toothbrushing isn’t a good idea as it sets you up for turning these occasional misses into a bad habit, said Yap. “Bad habits are easy to pick up and hard to get rid of.”
