When you’re going to brush your teeth, do you get into the habit of brushing your tongue? Experts believe that it is a mistake, even though it is a culture that has already spread but is not good for the functioning of the language.
Femme Actuelle thanks to this story reports that dentists in France gathered at the meeting of the dental association in that country confirm that it is not good to use toothpaste to wash your tongue to remove bacteria to keep you smelling good.
The experts report that the culture has been spread by some of the advertisers of its dental and oral hygiene activities. The reason it is said to be a mistake is that the tongue itself cleans itself through saliva by inviting at least two thousand times a day.
Cleaning the tongue every day with toothpaste can harm it, disrupting bacteria that are useful for digestion [altérer sa surface et perturber l’équilibre des bonnes bactéries qui colonisent notre tube digestif] as explained by Sophie-Myriam Dridi, a dentist at the hospital in the city of Nice in France.
Our language contains hundreds of bacteria but not all of them are caused by disease but most of them help us in digestion of food, in the production of vitamins and in protecting us from foreign bacteria.
This is why doctors who are members of the French dental association, the Dentaire Française Association, believe that washing the tongue regularly with a toothbrush is a mistake.
These experts confirm that a person who has such a habit can damage ‘papilles’ that makes him feel the taste and therefore lose his hearing. Those who like it are advised to wash their tongue at least 2 times a week.
AMANI Nesta