Three years ago I was doing the same thing and my dentist in Lubbock finally asked me point blank if I drank a lot of lemon water or vinegar. I switched to the capsules from Walmart and honestly noticed zero difference in how I felt, so I just stopped taking it all together. What helped me most was waiting 30 minutes after the shot before brushing, and rinsing with plain water right after instead of letting it sit. The straw thing works too but you still get some on your teeth on the way down.

When you say tears are "booked like a scene," are you talking about real tears or just the eye wipe motion? Because those are two very different things and I think the eye wipe is the bigger tell. Anyone can dab under their eyes with a tissue, that move costs nothing and buys a ton of sympathy. Actual tears showing up on camera are harder to fake on command, but even then, stage actors do it every night with the right trick. So my real question for you is this: if a person cries but then goes right back to doing the exact thing they apologized for, did the tears ever matter in the first place?