Retire Your Toothbrush.

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Retire Your Toothbrush.

 

 

Change your toothbrush at least once a month, or right after a cold,

flu or other illness. Germs that can live on a damp toothbrush for

days; when you're sick, a damp toothbrush may reinfect you. Use two

toothbrushes alternately to give each one a chance to completely dry

out. " Brushing your teeth is a traumatic injury, " says Dr. Charles J.

Palenik, a microbiologist at the Indiana University School of

Dentistry. " You are going into areas of your mouth where you can have

bleeding, and you could be reintroducing organisms back into your

system. "