Gregory's ServerAs an adult I am embarrassed to say that I learned very late how to care for my teeth.
I wrote this short post to share what I have learned.
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  @rek 1. Your website is really cool, love the website design. 2. This is a great blog post! I am in a similar boat. Have had luck with teeth, and that luck *may* be running out just as my financial capabilities are being stretched beyond their limits... @rek I had a similar experience of learning proper oral hygene through my audult years. Even with years of proper bushing and flossing, I still had gum recession. I've added a water pick which helped significantly and objectively by my desntist measuring the pocket size of the gumline. Also flouride mouth wash, mostly to help protect the newly exposed parts of my teeth.   @csepp @rek empathy with both of ya. Dental care is hard, especially with modern diets doing what they do to teeth. Signed, only one cavity so far, but my gums in one quadrant especially have been on a continual (slowing, kinda) decline for many years from multiple causes (including likely bad gene lottery, but also gum maintenance habits, depression, diet, etc) @knittingsquirrel Not with how it is set up currently, maybe for now just copy and paste the text into a text file? Sorry about that. I'll keep that in mind for the future (edit: by saying this I mean ill try and implement it soon) @knittingsquirrel If your browser preferences are set to light mode, you'll see the light version of my website now :>... I still have some tinkering to do but the current theme works well enough :>!  @ritualdust A lot of what I do isn't ideal =___=, my skin is a mess (the fact that i stopped drinking earlier this year tho has helped). @rek thanks a lot for writing this up! One thing that neither you nor replies have mentioned is using an electric toothbrush. Dentists here in the UK mention it on each visit and it did make a huge difference for me. You don't have to push so hard (so easier on the gums) and it still cleans better. The batteries are tiny so wouldn't add much load on the boat, but the ones that clean the best unfortunately have irreplaceable batteries so you end up having to replace them every 5 years or so... @rek Yeah, i think there's value in mentioning "I looked into this thing and decided not to use it because..." but at the same time of course you don't owe anyone an exhaustive list of all dental interventions in the world 😅 I just wanted to mention electric toothbrushes because they did make a difference for me and as long as you don't go all in with "smart" ones doing AI coaching and whatnot they aren't that big of an indulgence in the grand scheme of things. @rek |
@rek nice writeup!
If you want to add an extra layer you can use mouthwash with fluoride. 🌟💦
That's what I have been doing lately. And it is also recommended by The Public Health Agency of Sweden. Works great for me!