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Maybe it’s my personal mouth biome but if I don’t brush once a day I wake up with a disgusting thick film along the back of my throat and tongue. I’m not ocd about oral health. I have great teeth. I don’t floss and brush once a day. I don’t wear fragrances etc.

I work in healthcare and I’ve smelled a lot of really not nice things, bad breathe can really really stink. It’s not a cultural thing it’s more like a “good lord, shut your mouth you smell like you have a pile of MRSA infected shit festival in your mouth”

I used to smoke and other things, I have terrible sense of smell except when it comes to festering wounds and/or shit, especially infected shit. I pick those up like a hound dog and I know when someone isn’t brushing pretty quickly.

I do believe that mint thing though, I’ve been experimenting with different flavors ginger and orange cream and etc (non minty) and I miss the minty feed back.



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