【Monica Swinn】

He's brushing.

Beto O'Rourke posted footage from his dentist appointment to his Instagram Stories on Monica SwinnThursday, including a truly too-close-up clip of him in the dentist's chair. (A screengrab from that clip is probably what you've been seeing on Twitter.)

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Most of the Story, though, is an interview with Beto's dental hygienist, Diana, about growing up in El Paso near the U.S.-Mexico border. She tells a story about how her community banded together to help her mother, who is from Mexico, pass her citizenship test -- a testament to the strong border communities overlooked and mischaracterized by the GOP.

Instagramming from the dentist was a bizarre choice, though, to say the least. Twitter, which is doing a great and chill job gearing up for 2020, noticed immediately.

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Beto did not specify whether he had any cavities, although we presume he did not. Diana is the real star here, though -- she's definitely worth a watch.

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