I’ve been doing this for years but my friends were utterly baffled when they found out. I have a cheap, copper plated tongue scraper from a knick-knack store and it does the job beautifully, virtually eliminating morning breath.

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    14 days ago

    i have never ever heard of tongue scrapers. Do toothbrushes not work? And do tongue scrapers avoid the gag-reflex induced by using a toothbrush on it?

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      14 days ago

      I use an electric toothbrush and the high speed oscillation is too much to do my tongue without being too tickly. The scraper is just a steady slow motion that was much easier to cope with for me. Just try a rounded spoon to see if you tolerate it. That’s how it was suggested to me, and I just kept on using the spoon because I already had it.

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        14 days ago

        I believe this is the origin of the valley girl expression, “Gag me with a spoon.”

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          Can’t say as it hasn’t happened once or twice. 😅 I felt I had better control over it than the brush still.