Why you can not brush your teeth too hard?

You can definitely brush your teeth too hard, in fact you can cause damage to both your gums and your enamel by either brushing too hard or too long or even using the type of brush with hard bristle.

The stuff that you’re trying to remove off your teeth is called plaque and it’s very soft and super easy to remove, just with regular normal brushing with a normal soft bristled toothbrush. No aggressive scrubbing. We recommend changing your toothbrush every three months. It should never look super frayed.

If you brush too aggressively over time you can get recession or toothbrush abrasion or enamel wear of your teeth just from aggressive brushing.

If you brush your teeth too long. It usually takes on average about two minutes to brush all of your teeth. It could take a little bit less if you have less teeth in your mouth, or if you are kids, you know smaller teeth. it could potentially take a little bit longer if you already have a history of some pretty Advanced periodontal disease. So a lot of your roots are exposed, then you have more tooth structure to clean, but maximum it should take you like five minutes. but some people are tend to brush their teeth for 10,20,30 minutes or an hour too sometimes, they feel like they’re not doing a good enough job or they’re missing areas, but the thing is no matter how long you brush you’re bound to miss some spots whether it be because your teeth are super crowded or maybe you just can’t open that wide or wide enough to reach that area. If you don’t brush your teeth on a regular basis like every day and maybe you brush your teeth once a week, for example, the plaque there’s going to be a lot more of it and it’ll start to solidify on your teeth so it will be harder to remove .If you brush your teeth on a daily basis, it should be super soft very easy to remove, couple of minutes, normal brushing, no need to be aggressive.

For manual toothbrushes, they have an assortment of bristle stiffness including extra soft, soft, medium, hard bristle. Please remember what you’re removing off of your teeth is super soft. There’s no need to use anything harder when you’re using harder bristles again, You will have the problem of receding gums and toothbrush abrasion and over time that can cause sensitivity to cold.

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