I want to whiten my teeth

[Dalmoor]

No I've seen people back home like.. Wth is brush ?

OK might be taking the piss, but they don't use daawo for the toothbrush.

I heard back home; they use salt, and some other stuffs to clean their teeths with... like dhuxul.... I even heard caano geel strengthens the teeth. Wow!

 

[Zakaria Hussein]

I heard back home; they use salt, and some other stuffs to clean their teeths with... like dhuxul... Wow!

Yeah that's true or they just brush with caday Somali. But I personally don't think it's effective in todays time with all this colouring in foods. Plus we're smoking and using sugar which makes things worse

 

[Basra]

I heard back home; they use salt, and some other stuffs to clean their teeths with... like dhuxul... Wow!

In Minnesota they advertise teeth whitening like they advertise tooth paste. u can go to the dentist at your lunch hour and go right back to work. Literally every day there is a commercial about it.


I dont need it because i DONT drink coffee and i have never drank the river water from somaliland that make your teeth golden

 

[Nuur Iidaan]

You know our prophet(SAW) used to brush his teeth and tongue with those cadayo. He had an amazing set of teeth too, he would brush his teeth before every salah, as it was good etiquette. It's not a sunnah though, but it's good to follow in his footsteps as it's simply a beneficial action to do.

I remember reading a hadith that the prophet(SAW) would have made it sunnah for his ummah to use the miswak before every Salah, but feared that it would be too burdensome for us. Let me go and find it.

Here they are:

https://sunnah.com/riyadussaliheen/9/212

https://sunnah.com/riyadussaliheen/9/206

 

[Dalmoor]

@Zakaria Hussein There are also trees which may whiten your teeths apart from geed cadey.... there is another one like roots... I think they call it xidid. Best for brushing yo teeths I heard

 

[Zakaria Hussein]

You know our prophet(SAW) used to brush his teeth and tongue with those cadayo. He had an amazing set of teeth too, he would brush his teeth before every salah, as it was good etiquette. It's not a sunnah though, but it's good to follow in his footsteps as it's simply a beneficial action to do.

I remember reading a hadith that the prophet would have made it sunnah for his ummah to use the miswak before every Salah, but feared that it would be too burdensome for us. Let me go and find it.

Yeah but the prophet wasn't exposed to smoking, sugar, sweeteners and colours

 

[Zakaria Hussein]

@Zakaria Hussein There are also trees which may whiten your teeths apart from geed cadey.... there is another one like roots... I think they call it xidid. Best for brushing yo teeths

Yeah some people back home got great teeth but theirs also the ones who look like they've been few rounds with Mike Tyson. But a lot of it is due to khat

 

[Dalmoor]

Yeah that's true or they just brush with caday Somali. But I personally don't think it's effective in todays time with all this colouring in foods. Plus we're smoking and using sugar which makes things worse

Yeah that's true or they just brush with caday Somali. But I personally don't think it's effective in todays time with all this colouring in foods. Plus we're smoking and using sugar which makes things worse

I don't think there's lack of toothpastes in Somalia... well the colgates to be specific apart from Reer miyi/baadiyo.. anyone ca get access to them

 

[Nuur Iidaan]

Yeah but the prophet wasn't exposed to smoking, sugar, sweeteners and colours

Yh because those are things that a person doesn't need. Even if those things were all present in his times, He had the forbearance and discipline to not indulge in them, do you? You can cut out the smoking (if you smoke), cut out the sugar somehow, especially in Shaax(this one might be hard because we're Somalis lol) etc.

 

[Zakaria Hussein]

I don't think there's lack of toothpastes in Somalia... well the colgates to be specific apart from Reer miyi/baadiyo.. amyone cam get them

Yeah that's true but people their are not serious about oral care. Even going dentist there they will charge you an arm and a leg for consultation from some creepy china man

 

[Zakaria Hussein]

Yh because those are things that a person doesn't need. Even if those things were all present in his times, He had the forbearance and discipline to not indulge in them, do you? You can cut out the smoking (if you smoke), cut out the sugar somehow, especially in Shaax(this one might be hard because we're Somalis lol) etc.

I'm a social smoker, I do indulge in a lot of sugary drinks and cuunto. But even orange juice can be corrosive to your teeth

 

[Nuur Iidaan]

@Zakaria Hussein There are also trees which may whiten your teeths apart from geed cadey.... there is another one like roots... I think they call it xidid. Best for brushing yo teeths I heard

Never knew there were different types, I remember reading that some somali woman used to brush her old husband teeth and somehow straightened it by the continuous use of the caday.

I also remember reading some colonial post about how Somalis were men of great stature, and pearly white teeth and who constantly had a stick in their mouth (the long thin somali caday) to brush their teeth with.

 

[Nuur Iidaan]

I'm a social smoker, I do indulge in a lot of sugary drinks and cuunto. But even orange juice can be corrosive to your teeth

Yh I'm trying to cut down on tea, sugary drinks and all that nonsense. I don't know where your from, but some 1 - 1.5L bottles of water are cheap (like 45 -59p) compared to the sugary refrigerated drinks (500ml) in Tesco, UK. They are usually not refrigerated though.

 

[Dalmoor]

I thought the title was "I want to whiten my skin"



Diana could've been an option

 

[Zakaria Hussein]

This is how most Somalis brush back home, no daawo or nothing.. And also they might use the tooth pick accosionally

 

[Zakaria Hussein]

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I thought the title was "I want to whiten my skin"



Diana could've been an option

Igaaaa dhaaaa hahaha ha

 

[Dalmoor]

I'm a social smoker, I do indulge in a lot of sugary drinks and cuunto. But even orange juice can be corrosive to your teeth

You smoke?! It kills your teeth,



"If you smoke, do not smoke while whitening. If you have to smoke, smoke with your whitening trays covering your teeth. Try not to drink coffee, tea, or cola without using a straw"

 

[Zakaria Hussein]

Yh I'm trying to cut down on tea, sugary drinks and all that nonsense. I don't know where your from, but some 1 - 1.5L bottles of water are cheap (like 45 -59p) compared to the sugary refrigerated drinks (500ml) in Tesco, UK. They are usually not refrigerated though.

Yeah this year I'm gonna be trying to keep the hair and teeth I have @Dalmoor and not whitnening anything then my teeth lol

I just want that million shillings smile

 

[Dalmoor]

One weird sh!t I heard was that back home, people who chew khat used to eat a lot of sugar when chewing. Wtf!!!


Is the khat that much distasteful that they had to eat it with some teaspoons of sugar?

 

[Zakaria Hussein]

One weird sh!t I heard was that back home, people who chew khat used to eat a lot of sugar when chewing. Wtf!!!


Is the khat that much distasteful that they had to eat it with some teaspoons of sugar?

No so there's a sweet that was just a rock of sugar can't recall the name.

But some chewers were being inotivate and used to break some to into the takhsin as they chew back home.
Apparently it made the taste more tolarable.

I've even heard people suggest chewing with milkshake to me before,


Ronald's Mcdonald would've been proud lol