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About this tool
Score your daily oral care habits out of 100 against dental guidance and get ranked, informational tips on what to fix first.
The Oral Hygiene Score Tool converts nine everyday habits into a single number out of 100, weighted towards the behaviours dental guidance links most strongly to tooth decay and gum disease. It scores brushing frequency and duration, fluoride toothpaste use, interdental cleaning, brush age, how often you eat or drink sugar, tobacco use, check-up recency and bleeding gums, then ranks the habits by how many points each one is costing you. It is an informational self-check, not the clinical OHI-S plaque index a dentist scores in the chair.
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Habits carry different point values, so fluoride toothpaste and daily interdental cleaning outrank brush age.
Tips are sorted by points lost, so the biggest fix appears first instead of a generic list.
The score is computed in your browser from what you type; no answers are stored or sent anywhere.
Two minutes, twice a day, is the target set by the American Dental Association and most national guidance. Most people brush for well under a minute when they do not time it, so a timer, an electric brush with a built-in pacer or a two-minute track makes a measurable difference.
Yes — a toothbrush cannot reach the contact surfaces between teeth, which is roughly a third of each tooth's surface area, and that is where interdental decay and gum inflammation typically start. Daily flossing or an interdental brush sized to your gaps covers what brushing misses; interdental brushes are often easier to use well where the gaps allow them.
Each separate sugar exposure triggers an acid attack that keeps plaque pH low for roughly 20 to 40 minutes before saliva restores it. Four small sweet teas spread through the day therefore do more enamel damage than the same sugar eaten once with a meal, which is why this tool asks for occasions rather than grams. The WHO separately recommends keeping free sugars under 10% of daily energy intake.
Every three to four months, or sooner if the bristles splay or flatten, which is the standard ADA recommendation. Worn bristles remove noticeably less plaque, and it is also worth replacing the brush after a throat or mouth infection.