Do not follow the homemade advice to solve problems with your smartphone. We explain why you shouldn’t use toothpaste on your scratched smartphone.
Let’s get in situation. Our screen has some scratches that, with the naked eye, we can glimpse without any problem. Fed up, we search the internet to find a home remedy or trick or ask someone we know et… voilà! Our family, acquaintances or the internet tells us that toothpaste can repair scratches of our smartphone.
Delicately, we put a little toothpaste on the screen rubbing continuously. Immediately afterwards, we clean the remains with a chamois to realize that that scratch that impoverished the screen is still there. You don’t have to have seen many Holmes stories to know that toothpaste doesn’t work against scratches but why?. We will explain it below.
Toothpaste works with our teeth, not with the smartphone
Like all myths, the toothpaste story usually has some true notes. The toothpaste compound is a polishing agentthat is, it contains small microparticles with which we can brush our teeth to clean ourselves but they are not corrosive enough to solve the scratches on our mobile terminal.
In order to solve the scratches, we would have to polish them with the professional tools that the different manufacturers have at their repair points. Similarly, a screen that is badly damaged should be taken to repair directly to exchange it for a new unit. It is always best to prevent than to cure.
If you use it continuously, you could damage your phone
As he explains Xiaomi In the video below, toothpaste is an alkaline agent. This means that you can damage the oleophobic coatingin charge of protecting our smartphone from annoying fingerprints on the screen.
If we run out of this coating, the smartphone will get dirty more easily, causing us to see the panel images badly and having to regularly clean the terminal every so often to have to solve the problem.
Nothing happens if we lose the coating since we can find it in stores online coating liquid that we can apply directly to our terminals, but it is always better to have the original protection with us to ensure the proper functioning of the device.
The ideal in these cases is always to try to find a official manufacturer solution for the case we have. As we have mentioned, if the scratch is too big, we could sit down and think if it is really worth it or not to take it to repair to apply a new glass.
If you do not want to have scratches, put a screen protector
From our experience, the best solution if we have a relatively new smartphone is to use a screen protector. Plastics tend to work well and are cheap but can make the image loses quality on mobile.
In these cases, the best thing to protect the phone is tempered glass. We will be able to continue using the smartphone like the first day without losing image quality and, if it is scratched or broken, we can change it for a new one. They usually have a medium price and they usually resist quite a lot, even when falling to the ground.
Even so, we shouldn’t worry too much since today’s phones come with very resistant panels. You can always have a mishap but, if you take care of your terminal, not having a screen protector shouldn’t be too much of a problem. The important is that let’s enjoy our terminal to the maximum, having a healthy balance between protection and enjoyment.