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Brushing with salt

2019-11-21 16:50:03
With brushing tooth with salt directly will affect my tooth badly if yes then how to use salt for tooth brushing can i brush directly with salt as u have seen in Google that long term use of salt will erode enamel is it true
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Yes it erodes enamel thats true Don't use salt for brushing the teeth

Answered2019-11-22 05:23:51

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