I always get the brush and paste at the dentist and I've already brought enough to work so I probably have a half-dozen of each floating around the house. :D
Thank god I dont need to go to the dentist. And, yes, I hate the hygenists that do the tooth cleaning. Scraping off the first 5 millimeters of my gums? No wonder you're diagnosing all these receding gums! Like, WTF!???