What is the worst time to brush your teeth?

Answer is (C):

The worst time to brush teeth is straight after breakfast

The traditional mantra has been to brush your teeth after breakfast.

However, many people have acidic foods or drinks at breakfast such as orange juice or grapefruit. This can temporarily soften the surface layer of the enamel and brushing straight afterwards could remove this surface layer and, over time, will lead to loss of the enamel.

So the best advice is either to brush before breakfast, or wait for an hour afterwards, by which time the softened layer will have hardened up again due to the mineral content of saliva.

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