Why do they even make medium and hard toothbrushes? Every dentist and every piece of literature about taking care of your teeth says that you should brush gently and use a soft toothbrush so you don’t damage your enamel and prematurely cause your gums to recede. I can understand that the demand is probably affecting the supply, but how stupid are the toothbrush companies? Their customers’ teeth are going to fall out early because their short gums can’t hold in their tiny, thinning teeth. Goodbye teeth, so long toothbrush! Unless you brush your dentures… Do you brush dentures? Or do they just soak? I guess if you brushed your dentures you might use a hard toothbrush and it wouldn’t matter. Might work better, in fact. I know I like a stiff brush when I scrub my porcelain toilet. Hmmm…. So maybe those toothbrush companies aren’t so stupid, as long as people are brushing stains from their dentures and toilets. But maybe hard toothbrushes should be sold alongside plungers and old people stuff so as not to confuse those of us who still have teeth and want to keep them.