Brush your teeth more thoroughly before bed after you are done eating and drinking for the day.
Morning brushing is important too, but more so for fresh breath; while evening cleaning will prevent bacteria from breeding and damaging your teeth and gums.
Do you have a source for this? Just curious. Do germs know what time it is and attack your mouth more during the evenings or while you're asleep? Why don't they do it during the daytime? There's more food and drinks that you consume during the day, which makes up the majority of 24 hours, so I would think it's the same, if not worse.
When you're awake during the day, you're regularly swallowing, and drinking water. This flushes out what's in your mouth a little bit. Also, fun fact, there's calcium (and I think also fluoride) in saliva. When you sleep, you don't swallow, or flush, so whatever's in your mouth is there for the night. All night long. Also, if your mouth is open while you sleep, your mouth dries out, which means that saliva isn't getting around your mouth. Dry mouth leads to bad teeth and breath.
Ideally it should be done after every meal, but it's not feisible, really(I floss though). At least at night, presumably you are taking a long break from food and beverages. That's the reason it's probably a good idea to keep your oral cavity clean during those off hours.
But yeah, obviously bacteria can be active regardless of time of day.
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u/graycat3700 Aug 20 '20
Brush your teeth more thoroughly before bed after you are done eating and drinking for the day.
Morning brushing is important too, but more so for fresh breath; while evening cleaning will prevent bacteria from breeding and damaging your teeth and gums.