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Not sure of the exact science, but it’s some sort of chemical reaction with toothpaste and orange juice that makes it taste horrible
I’m pretty sure it has to do with the toothpaste numbing the sweet taste receptors on your tongue, so you only taste the bitter parts of the orange juice and not any of the sweet parts.
It shouldn’t hurt. Most likely throughout the day plaque / spit / food coat your teeth and prevent the acidic orange juice from triggering sensitive nerves in your teeth. When you brush, you remove all that gunk. While the gunk is preventing the juice from touching your teeth, ultimately it’s feeding more plauqe which is breaking down your teeth’s enamel faster.
Talk to your dentist. You may be over brushing with too hard a grit, not brushing enough, or may have other factors like diet contributing to this pain.
It has to do with a difference in pH. (How acidic or alkaline something is). Imagine if you had your left hand in a hot bowl of water and your right hand in cold. Then when you put both in a room temperature water it will feel drastically different.
After brushing your teeth your mouth is adjusted to the non-acidic toothpaste, and OJ is quite acidic so it is shocking to your taste buds.
The chemical in toothpaste that does this is called sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), and is what makes it foamy. It’s also in a ton of other foamy products like shaving cream, but those will probably be even worse for your tastebuds!
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