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Brushstrokes.

My chosen brand of toothpaste promises whiter teeth in fourteen days. Will this be the case ad infinitum?  I can’t imagine it makes your teeth progressively white for the rest of time. You’d soon reach optimum whiteness. What would you do then? Switch to a different toothpaste? No-one wants to look like Donny Osmond.   (Except for, perhaps, the other Osmonds, though they don’t have much of a choice.) The time frame on the box is alarmingly precise. Not twelve days, or thirteen, but fourteen . So, you won’t notice any change to your teeth until exactly a fortnight in. If true, the impact of your morning routine on day fourteen would be nothing short of miraculous. If you stopped brushing a couple of days before, would you see no improvement? Conversely, if you used this brand for the rest of your life, how long before you look like you’ve swallowed a UV light? This isn’t my only issue. Take a look at this: A...