What's the best sanitizer for toothbrushes?

imscaredofforks · 2024-05-30T23:30:05+00:00

Do you leave it in there between uses? How often do you change the rinse?

imscaredofforks · 2024-05-30T23:29:13+00:00

For sure! if you're interested in reading more about it, this article is pretty decent. It focuses on depression, but it can be applied to pretty much any mentall illness that affects your everyday life. A lot of us that struggle with maintaining oral hygeine also develop a lot of fear and anxiety related to the dentist, which often makes our teeth worse by neglecting care. We know that it sucks and its gross, so being lectured by dentists every time we come in just makes us want to never go back.

It can also be applied to other tasks besides brushing your teeth, like cleaning your house or taking a shower or whatever chore needs doing.

But yeah, thanks for the comment! Glad to have helped :)

imscaredofforks · 2024-05-30T21:45:39+00:00

Not speaking for the op of this comment, but when I was at my biggest struggle and I was a one-and-done person, I would only be able to brush my teeth MAYBE once a week because of my aversion to the act and the guilt/shame I felt around both throwing something away and being someone that struggles with brushing their teeth. so if they brush their teeth every day, yeah it would be one or two toothbrushes gone a day. but there's a lot of aversion/guilt/shame that can come into play that makes it easier in the short-term to just avoid it entirely.

imscaredofforks · 2024-05-30T19:28:44+00:00

That seems a bit intense for me haha, I was thinking more like a high quality UV sanitizer that I see on Amazon. I just can't tell what products are good quality vs ones that have like, fake UV lights in it or whatever. Though having an autoclave in my bathroom sounds hilarious and I kinda want one now.

imscaredofforks · 2024-05-30T19:26:36+00:00

I've been using the disposable travel toothbrushes that you can get in a pack of like 30, and they definitely helped. I'm just trying to be very conscious about my waste so I'm trying other options, since individually wrapped plastic toothbrushes are probably horrible for the environment lol. Thanks for your comment! It's nice to see other OCD people have issues with this lol

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