“Coffee is quite acidic and especially if you add milk and sugar that can make the acidity even worse.
“Exact same concept, if you go and brush your teeth straightaway, you’re rubbing acid onto the tooth and wearing the tooth away.
“Wait at least 30 to 60 minutes, you don’t actually have to brush your teeth, just rinse out with some mouthwash or drink water.”
Situation no.3
This ties in with brushing your teeth after your morning coffee as Dr Manouchehri says: “Don’t brush your teeth after breakfast, brush them beforehand because if you brush straightaway, you’re going to be damaging your enamel.
“And actually when you first wake up in the morning, you have quite a lot of bacteria in the mouth and that needs to be brushed before you have your breakfast.”
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Taking to the comments section, one person thought: “That’s why I brush my teeth first thing in the morning, I don’t understand people who don’t.”
“Brudda i threw up like 30 mins ago and brushed my teeth :(,” a second penned.
“I’ve been brushing after coffee (breakfast) for like 10 years,” added a third.
“I do all of these and my dentist tells me my teeth are some of the best they’ve seen,” a fourth wrote.
