Schmesh-from-the-dentist clean

Posted by beth on June 23, 2009

Is it just me, or is there anyone else out there who DOES NOT UNDERSTAND AT ALL what the toothpaste people are talking about when they say “fresh-from-the-dentist clean?” When I leave the dentist, my teeth don’t feel any cleaner than they did when I went in, mostly because when I went in, I’d just brushed them. This, to me, is much like cleaning your house before the cleaning people come, but that is a different post.

What eludes me even more is why a toothpaste would boast about making your teeth feel the way they do when you leave the dentist. I don’t know about y’all, but my teeth always feel really itchy and out-of-place for at least 12 hours after I leave the dentist. I do not care for it. If my toothpaste made my teeth feel that way, I would burn that toothpaste and then write a blog post about it wherein I refer to it as the devil and yet remain surprisingly upbeat about the whole thing. Hmmmm…this is starting to sound a little familiar…

Anyhoe, my cavity-free teeth are back to normal now, and I would like to make them feel fresh-from-the-garlic-bread-smothered-in-homemade-tomato-sauce clean very soon. Can I get an amen to that?