#dental hygiene PSA

[sickpunk-selfshipper]

CW: body upkeep/ personal hygiene; dental hygiene

Your F/O doesn’t judge you for struggling with personal hygiene

Your F/O understands that showers take time and energy and spoons

Your F/O doesn’t judge you for not washing your hair

It’s okay if you are a bit stinky (or a lot stinky)

Your F/O understands that brushing your teeth is exhausting and can be sensory discomfort but

If you invest any energy and spoons into personal upkeep at all, your F/O strongly encourages you to put those spoons into brushing your teeth

I promise you, your F/O does not judge you for falling short

But if you can, your F/O asks that you please brush your teeth and prioritise that

They know you’re not happy and they know you want to do more

But if you only can do so much, only have limited spoons, please focus on dental hygiene

I promise you, your F/O still loves you if you haven’t showered in a few days

And your F/O does not get mad at you if you can’t brush your teeth

It’s okay, your F/O knows things are tough

Your F/O loves and supports you no matter how long it takes to get back on your feet about personal hygiene and body upkeep

antis DNI! This post is not for anti shippers!

[jstor]

Step back into the 1950s with this vintage gem from the American Dental Association, from the Wellcome Collection available on JSTOR. This clip from a series of 1-minute TV announcements reminds us that maintaining a healthy smile is timeless. The animated PSA playfully suggests that if you take care of your teeth as you age, "you'll think you're another Peter Pan." 🦷 ✨ Explore how dental health advice was shared with audiences over 60 years ago and reflect on how much—or how little—has changed in our approach to oral hygiene in the full video on JSTOR.

[conditionaljewel]

Listen y’all

As someone who’s reckoning with 15+ years of bad decisions when it comes to their health, especially their dental health

Please take this as a sign and take care of your teeth.

I’ve been depressed, and anxiety- and trauma-riddled from previous dental experiences that I have not taken the best care of my teeth. I’ve been ashamed of the smile that had come of that neglect, but now the neglect is catching up to me and I am paying for it. Literally and figuratively.

I’m losing my wisdom teeth, and that’s all well and fine bc who needs em - they shoulda been gone a while ago honestly - but there’s no guarantee that I’m not gonna lose more because of my years of neglect.

I’m saying this with a lot of guilt, and shame, and a ton of pain, but if overcoming that shame and guilt to post this can help someone save themselves from where I’m at then it’ll be worth it.

Please, please, please take care of your teeth. Even if you’re depressed, even if you struggle to do anything else during the day for yourself, please just take care of your teeth. Your wallet and your mouth will thank you later, I swear.

The whole “schedule maintenance before it is scheduled for you” is so real. Get checkups. See doctors, see dentists, get your eyes checked, please take care of yourselves and seek help. But especially if you’re depressed, please just push yourself to do just this one thing and save your teeth. Please.

Do it for me. Please. 🩷 You will love yourself a lot more for it, I promise.

I love you.

[sheena-is-a-punk-rocker]

Friendly neighborhood RDA (registered dental assistant) chiming in to say that the most important thing for your teeth is fluoride. Doesn't matter what brand of toothpaste you use as long as it has fluoride. Have flavor aversion to mint? Use kids toothpaste that has a fun flavor!

And something I recommend a lot to my neurodivergent patients who have sensory issues around brushing is to just use a wet washcloth to scrub off all the plaque on your teeth and then rinse with a fluoride mouthwash.

Yes, the above products are great and do the job very well but you're not gonna use them if you don't like minty flavors and that's a HUGE thing I see over and over again with neurodivergent people, kids and adults alike.

It doesn't really matter how you're taking care of your teeth, as long as you're doing something.

Okay listen I have another disability related thing that’s important!!

If you have any disabilities linked to tooth decay/erosion, through direct cause or secondary symptom, it is vital that you get one or both of the following items: Sensodyne toothpaste and enamel repair mouthwash

This includes health conditions such as acid reflux, diabetes, thyroid conditions, fibromyalgia, chronic pain & mental illnesses such as depression that create poor hygiene routines, sensory issue disorders like autism and ADHD, and any health condition that causes frequent vomiting / increased stomach acid, including eating disorders and migraines.

All of these disabilities will erode the enamel of your teeth, not only opening you up to cavities but making it very easy to chip your teeth from such simple things as biting the wrong way on the tines of a fork. (I’ve chipped my teeth at least 4 times this way).

The toothpaste on the left here (sensodyne pronamel) is gentle on your teeth, won’t cause painful sensations from any extreme mint flavor, and will even protect your gums if they’re sensitive from any of these conditions.

The mouthwash on the right (Crest enamel repair) will, as it says, repair your enamel — which is marvelous, because the technology to repair your enamel at all is relatively very new to society! — but it is most importantly non-alcoholic. Meaning that it works well as a once-a-day rinse without any of the burning sensations of antiseptics that typically discourage people with sensory issues from taking care of their teeth.

I know remembering to do these things every day can feel like a lot when you’re sick and exhausted, but I promise a collective three minutes out of every day is going to save you an incredible amount of pain and money in the future. If your teeth are susceptible enough to rot, you can actually die from infection. And as they say, with how little insurance actually covers dental —

Not brushing your teeth??

In THIS economy???

[taxi-davis]

American Dental Association - "The Modified Scrub" (PSA, 1979) 🦷

[takeiteasyonmeimstilllearning]

PSA don't bite your taste buds off

Its been 2 friggin jigen weeks and the sore has only shrank to half the size it was. You can't eat anything, drinking water hurts if it touches the sore, be ridiculously careful when brushing ur teeth, and God forbid you try to talk. And on top of that your gums swell so bad that your whole mouth and jawline ache like leg day at the gym. And they won't unswell even though you're religious about brushing flossing and mouthwashing.

And then the cherry on top? You get some pretty not nice headaches because you're not eating or drinking like you should for the past week and a half. I have learned my lesson about chewing my taste buds off. I shan't ever do it again

[withahappyrefrain]

PSA for tumblr peeps but also a thing that happened this week to me: got a nightguard cause I grind my teeth and my jaw locks and it’s a whole list of other issues lol..but 10/10 everyone probably needs one for one dental issue for another (but ask ur dentist specifically tho) but especially if you used to have braces WEAR UR RETAINERS..

ask ur S/O or roomate etc if you grind your teeth or hear any mouth sounds or what have you..cause it could be a problem and/or hurt your teeth. It’s so tempting to do an over the counter one but go for dentist version pls!! (If you can)

Good oral hygiene is sexy and popular babes! Take care of your oral health 2024 ❤️❤️

If you're able to go to the dentist (I know shit is expensive I didn't go until I got on my husband's health insurance) please go!!!

[lichenobserver]

PSA!!! many antidepressants cause your saliva to dry out which can lead to faster plaque buildup; if you're on antidepressants consider adding a non-alcohol flouride mouthwash to your oral hygiene routine!

this post sponsored by the FOUR cavities needing immediate attention OP discovered at their dental xrays today despite their normally excellent teeth :(

[sunhowler]

hey man. also facing thousands of dollars worth of dental work due to poor care here. i literally lost one of my incisors. if you think posts reassuring people its ok they have trouble taking care of their teeth are "anti recovery" youre straight up stupid like i dont know what to tell you. nothing in the world helped me get better at taking care of my teeth than learning i wasnt alone. i thought for a long time that nobody in the fucking world was as bad at dental hygiene as i was because nobody talked about it!!!! nobody felt like saying anything other than "brush your teeth"!!! in my early teens i completely broke my tooth brushing habits because i fell into the worst depression id ever been in and i thought i wouldnt live long enough for my teeth to matter. i spent so long not taking care of my teeth At All. i went months without brushing them at a time. and never in my life until like a year ago had anyone ever told me that i wasnt alone. i lived in so much shame thinking i was repulsive (id have people ask me to my face what was wrong with my teeth before) and beyond repair so why even Try. but learning that there were other people who struggled just as badly as me motivated me to get better like nothing else. i didnt know i didnt have to be ashamed. i didnt know that my existence wasnt unilaterally disgusting to every other human being on the planet. i didnt know i was allowed to talk about it, much less that i was allowed to talk about it without adding a billion qualifiers about how you should brush your teeth actually.

i just. like. the problem isnt that we dont know we're supposed to brush our teeth. the problem isn't that we think it doesn't matter (like trust me op i think everyone else whos dealing with dental hygiene difficulties is also facing the consequences). the problem is that dental hygiene is so cloaked in shame and guilt and it feels impossible to talk about without judgement. this honestly reads like calling posts about self harm "anti recovery" because they didnt attach a psa about how its bad to cut yourself actually and you shouldnt do it. We Know That. and if all we get in response to our suffering is "here are the things you should do to not suffer" with no reassurance or emotional outreach then very fucking little is going to change. nobody with difficulty brushing their teeth is going to be helped by a tumblr post saying "brush your teeth". they already hear that from everyone else constantly and its obviously not fucking working. if posts offering emotional support and solidarity didnt help you then im sorry and that sucks but it doesnt mean those posts are anti recovery as a whole and its fucking insulting that you believe that to be honest

[clovexei]

Twisted Wonderland Part 2

I finished Books 2 and 3 and again there is no obligation to interact with this, this is just my joyful yelling about nonsense.

- I got a skit that was 100% a PSA for how to have good dental hygiene and brush/floss your teeth. Outside of my dentist’s office, it’s the only place I’ve seen anyone mention that brushing your teeth too hard scrapes the enamel off.

- Absolutely loved the finale to book 2 when the headmaster assumes everyone will want to peacefully solve their interpersonal conflicts with Leona and the students all go, “yeah no we’re beating the shit out of him let’s go”

- Loved Jamil 100% ready to burn down the school store because there were ants in the garbage can

- Love that Ursula’s house is straight up THE ITALIAN MOB. And they are BLACKMAILING THE HEADMASTER. The Wonderland house warden wants to host tea parties and croquet tournaments; meanwhile, the Ursula house warden rolled up as a tiny baby freshman in a three-piece suit ready to collect souls and indentured servants. Fucking INSANE, I LOVE IT.

-- It’s a bit off-putting that Floyd talks so much about squeezing people (to DEATH???), but in his human form, I like to imagine this translates to him crushing people in just the most over-the-top rib-cracking hugs and like same, my guy, same.

-- ALSO Leona’s, “Sorry, Azul. You’re just not quite as dastardly a villain as Yu is” !!! A fucking KICK ASS line, especially when literally all Yu threatened to do was sit outside of Leona’s room and scream nonstop unless he agreed to help lol.

-- From the Halloween event, the dynamic between Rook, Sebek, and Troy got me. Rook “I lived in the jungle for six months when I was six years old and accidentally poisoned myself and saw God no of course I am not lying” + Sebek’s “HOLY SHIT YOU’RE AMAZING FOR A HUMAN WOW” + Troy’s “Why the FUCK do you two have to be SO WEIRD ALL THE TIME” Delightful.

-- Also, Ace & Deuce being inseparable friends is so cute. Ace using Deuce’s cauldron spell when he’s stressed, Ace saying he’s not worried about Deuce when he’s kidnapped for the Halloween event but missing how quiet it is without him--doihsoihfdsf they’re such good buddies.

- I got Malleus’s lab coat outfit, and there is something very funny to me about the S-Tier Enigmatic and Powerful Dragon character wearing his safety goggles and laboratory coat & gloves as intended. Like, none of the other guys wear their safety gear properly, they’re either being silly or trying to look hot, but this game’s Handsome Boy poster child is modeling perfect lab safety. Bless him.

- Speaking of Malleus, I love his vibe?? Everyone at this school thinks he is So Cool and Distant and Powerful, meanwhile he’s info-dumping about gargoyles at every possible opportunity and his most treasured possession is a Tamagotchi. 100/10

[drheartstealer]

A bit of a PSA: I just watched this YouTube video about how to have a good dental hygiene. Apparently you need to keep the toothpaste in your mouth - do not rinse after brushing your teeth! I've always rinsed it out. Hope this helps!

[croweykid]

Remember Kids: Dental Hygiene Is Important.

Don’t live like me and trick your parents into thinking you’ve been using toothpaste for years when in fact it was only water because animals never have to brush their teeth so why should I? Now I have gold teeth. You’re welcome, mom.

(Incidentally, this is part of a series I did two years ago on my cheap Android phone with a $1.25 stylus using a program called Artflow.)

[asktheheirofslytherin]

This one has been itching at me for some time. Do you have fangs or enlarged canines? (Also @mun (hope I'm using that right) are you ignoring or deleting some of my asks? I'm not trying to be rude or anything I'm just curious as to whether or not they were eaten by this hellsite) - Simply X

I do not. My teeth are quite normal in appearance - though from what I hear the film depiction of events portrays them as unpleasant looking, as though I did not floss. Perhaps the idea of not flossing makes me seem...more evil?

[[Mun/admin/blogger/OOC - I respond to it all, haha. I answer every ask I receive. I have a few hanging out in the inbox, but none signed from you.  Tumblr might be eating them.]] 

[chaosdisorganized]

Dental hygiene psa: please brush your teeth my mouth hurts very bad from years of neglect. It's not good man, just brush your teeth. Please thank you have a nice day.

[she-who-rescues]

Reposting because states are starting to reopen.

Addition- please remember that we are aware that you have missed your appointment due to covid. We are rescheduling as fast as possible. But we also have to still see emergencies and operate with limited staff and capacity and keep you and us safe. Please don’t be a jerk to the office you’re calling..... or if we are calling you.

We are all doing our very best. Be kind.

PSA tumblr fam! Please reblog

If you have to go to a medical appointment, the emergency room, urgent care, or if you have a dental emergency that requires treatment, PLEASE DO NOT BRING AN ENTOURAGE. Come alone and if you are unable to for any reason, please allow the person accompanying you to wait in the car if possible.

The more people in our waiting areas and treatment rooms increases OUR risk of exposure as well as you and your party and then the next patient.

As a dental assistant my office and I are trying our best to see emergencies and keep people out of medical facilities. Please help keep us safe too.

PLEASE REBLOG

TL:DR DO NOT BRING AN ENTOURAGE TO ANY APPOINTMENTS. I want to stay safe too. Thanks

[longbellybutton]

that one scene reinvented