Funny that everyone here has different orders. After consulting a few sources, I settled on: floss (with a water flosser), (infrequent) mouthwash, brush.
Since I’m using a water flosser that’s thoroughly hitting all around my teeth, not just the gaps, it actually does the bulk of the physical gunk removal with not much else to it, so it goes first.
Mouthwash is next but I actually skip it more often than not and haven’t seen negative effects. It turns out that overusing mouthwash can harm the good biome in your mouth, though I imagine if you’re feeding your biome lots of sugar, soda and juices especially, you’ll need to prune it down with mouthwash more often. I drink water almost exclusively.
Brushing basically has to go last if you want the protective fluoride layer to not get washed out. Acting against that though, I know about the advice to not rinse, but that just feels wrong, so I still do a very quick rinse.
Funny that everyone here has different orders. After consulting a few sources, I settled on: floss (with a water flosser), (infrequent) mouthwash, brush.
Since I’m using a water flosser that’s thoroughly hitting all around my teeth, not just the gaps, it actually does the bulk of the physical gunk removal with not much else to it, so it goes first.
Mouthwash is next but I actually skip it more often than not and haven’t seen negative effects. It turns out that overusing mouthwash can harm the good biome in your mouth, though I imagine if you’re feeding your biome lots of sugar, soda and juices especially, you’ll need to prune it down with mouthwash more often. I drink water almost exclusively.
Brushing basically has to go last if you want the protective fluoride layer to not get washed out. Acting against that though, I know about the advice to not rinse, but that just feels wrong, so I still do a very quick rinse.