Comments on: Geeks Weigh In: Can You Fix A Scratched CD With Toothpaste?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:27:13 +0000

Could you also use a piece of very fine sand paper? (like 1000 grit?)

By: Ryan Dube

Ryan Dube — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:42:09 +0000

Hi Lindsay, I realize this might be a silly question, but did you make sure the clean it off thoroughly before you tried it again? The toothpaste can obviously get trapped in the scratches so thoroughly cleaning it off well after the buffing is an important step!

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:57:55 +0000

TOOTH PASTE RUINED MY CD! I’t seriously made it worse…I can’t even use it now. It was messed up, but it kind of worked the sound would cut out after a certain amount of time, but hey I figured I would use the toothpaste trick, because a lot of people use it and swear it works…well not for me it made my dvd player act up. It froze on my computer afterwords…. o.o

By: CJ_Smokum

CJ_Smokum — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:52:00 +0000

Yeah man the toothpaste method in my opinion is as real as jenkem. Thier both things that thousands on the net claim is real but is just another legend for us to all get excited about with embarrassingly disappointing results… Mythbusters anyone? But really, look up jenkem everybody. Its xxxxx up shit.

By: zoya

zoya — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:46:13 +0000

didnt work for me i guess i still see small scratches even after 2 buffs of toothpaste

By: micheal

micheal — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:07:02 +0000

toothpaste made my cd worse is there any produt out there thats is effective?

By: micheal

micheal — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:02:55 +0000

toothpaste is a terrible try scratchout its a great product

By: KZ

KZ — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:53:14 +0000

Hi, i have this cd that has really deep scratches made by a pen i assume (my sister scratched it up, i dont know why) would this work?

By: mallik

mallik — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:23:13 +0000

hi……

By: Ossie

Ossie — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:06:01 +0000

Hey Ryan,
I use a car care product on my discs and a microfibre cloth. ‘Meguiars Plastex’, which is for eliminating the haze and scratches from your headlights, even states on the bottle that it can be used for removing scratches from CD’s. ‘Mothers’ makes a similar product. I have brought back to life so many Playstation discs, some that would not even load, mostly with just one application. One stubborn disc had about 10 cleans as it continually stopped reading the further I progressed in the game, and each clean let me keep going until I completed it. Went all the way from unreadable to completed. This stuff just keeps building on the repairs it has already done.You only need a tiny drop the size of a chocolate chip to clean a whole disc, not just a small part of it, so it’s far greater value than products sold specifically for disc cleaning. You could do 100′s of discs from one bottle.
FYI, toothpaste is really good for cleaning the grease off your hands after you’ve been working on the car.