Uh oh, toothpaste entry!!

Tuesday, September 14, 2004 » thought

Bought some new toothpaste today, because my Sensodyne had run out. A few months ago I switched to using Sensodyne because word on teh stret is that it helps against canker sores, to which I am prone during school, probably from less sleep and more work piling up. I guess the rumors are true, because after my tube ran out I went back to my old tube for a day and immediately a canker sore appeared. Horrible.

Sorry about that last paragraph. I was mainly wondering: Does anyone else have difficulty choosing a new tube of toothpaste? I don't know how quickly toothpaste technology advances, but it seems like every time I go to the toothpaste section there several varieties that I haven't seen before. And I don't mean there are new brands—each brand has four or five different variations on itself. There's the plaque and tartar control tube, the whitening tube, the long-lasting fresh breath tube, and the new extreme mint (or whatever).

This raises a potentially endless amount of questions: What if people want more than one thing out of their toothpaste? What prevents toothpaste companies from putting out an all-in-one supertube? It's not like they're making more money this way off people having to buy all five tubes.1 Are there ingredients in the whitening formula that would explode if mixed with the extreme mint? And lastly, which toothpaste has a good amount of agility, and while lacking in defense, makes up for it with a powerful projectile attack?

1 At least, I seriously hope not.