[romseb]

Thanks for the educational text.

> you obviously have many misconceptions about dental hygiene/ brushing teeth

What misconceptions do you see? I go to the dental hygienist twice a year already and my oral health has never been better since using the Miswak in lieu of an electric toothbrush.

[kaliszad]

How do you brush your interdental spaces with the miswak? If you don't physically brush or floss them, how can they be clean? Do your dentists x-ray your teeth? It could help a bit if you eat sugar-free diet but unless you mechanically remove the plaque buildup you will sooner or later develop gum inflammation/ gingivitis and carries.

Of course, you could explicitly ask if your dental hygiene is spotless. In any profession where you need to be nice to customers people tend to say fewer bad things or put them euphemistically. Clarity can get lost.

[romseb]

For my interdental spaces, an interdental brush does not work, my dental hygienist also tried and agrees. I used floss before, but a few years ago I switched to an italian-made oral irrigator that does not require batteries and is connected to the faucet: https://www.sowash.it/

I was skeptical about it at first, but it does the job just fine because the jet is more powerful than any of the electric oral irrigators.

While I'm not doing it anymore, a ketogenic diet also had a huge effect on the buildup of plaque.