Celebrities are no strangers to being trend-setters. Eagle-eyed fans want to know what their favourite celeb is wearing, their latest diet and exercise regime and now it seems, even their oral hygiene routine.
During 2025’s Love Island for example, it wasn’t the hottest bikini trend that got viewers talking but the cast’s interdental cleaning routines – who’d have thought it?! As the cast got ready for bed, out came the moisturisers and the spot banishers, the tongue scrapers and the dental floss. And dentists are delighted to see these often overlooked routines incorporated in the contestants’ oral care. So how do the experts say you should be cleaning your teeth to get that dazzling celebrity smile?
According to hygienist Emma Nelson from the Dental Referral Centre, the single most important practice to incorporate into any oral hygiene routine is to clean between the teeth. Most tooth decay starts between the teeth but 1 in 3*adults have never flossed or clean interdentally. A toothbrush alone cleans just 60% of the tooth. To hit the other 40% that the toothbrush can’t reach, oral hygiene products such as DenTek’s floss picks and interdental brushes are vital.
The tongue also harbours approximately 60-80%** of the bacteria in the mouth and accounts for up to 90% of cases of bad breath. The bottom line is that if you’re not cleaning your tongue, you’re allowing bacteria to have a home in your mouth so the cleaner you keep your tongue the better! Simply use a tongue cleaner, like DenTek’s Orabrush Tongue Cleaner, to brush the tongue surface after brushing your teeth.
“Upgrading your smile does not mean spending hundreds on whitening treatment or veneers to get a bright, clean smile”, says Dr Quintus Van Tonder, Clinical Director at Zandielle Dental Clinic in Attleborough. “Adding interdental and tongue cleaning to your oral hygiene routine are the two most important things to remember as they remove plaque build-up and bacteria that is otherwise missed by the toothbrush”.
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