Many people rely on their good teeth when they were young. They don't talk about eating and drinking, don't like brushing their teeth, and don't brush their teeth. When they reach middle age, their teeth will rot and they will spend countless money to see their teeth. In fact, brushing your teeth well can avoid most oral diseases, toothache, missing teeth and other dental problems, and save a lot of money. But many people brush their teeth every day. Why are their teeth still bad? That's because he stepped on these "misunderstandings".
Myth 1: Brushing your teeth with cold water will make people with sensitive dentin have toothache, and it is not conducive to the active substances in toothpaste. The main ingredients in toothpaste are abrasives and fluoride. Laboratory research shows that the optimum temperature for these effective components to work is about 37℃.
Suggestion: It is best to brush your teeth with warm water close to your body temperature. It is best to brush your teeth with warm water. Some people brush their teeth with cold water, which can cause dentin hypersensitivity and pain. Especially in winter, you need to brush your teeth with warm water to avoid dental discomfort. The temperature of warm water should be close to body temperature, and too hot water will damage oral mucosa.
Myth 2: Brush your teeth too hard. Brushing your teeth too hard can also hurt your teeth. Although the enamel on the surface of teeth is hard, it is not flawless. Brushing your teeth vigorously for a long time can also cause damage to enamel.
Suggestion: 200 grams of strength is enough, which is roughly equivalent to picking up an popsicle with your fingers and brushing your teeth with the strength of your wrist instead of your arm. It doesn't take much effort to clean your teeth when you brush your teeth. If you brush your teeth in the wrong way, the greater the intensity, the easier it is to hurt your teeth. Don't brush your teeth too hard, you'd better brush them clean. The force used for brushing teeth varies from person to person, and there is no quantitative standard. Everyone can handle it according to their own situation.
Myth 3: Brush your teeth sideways. Many people brush their teeth horizontally, which is a kind of physical wear on enamel.
On the one hand, transverse brushing can't remove the rubbish between teeth, and at the same time, it may lead to wedge-shaped defect of root, gum damage, dentin sensitivity and other problems.
Suggestion: The correct way to brush teeth is to brush vertically, the lower teeth from bottom to top, and the upper teeth from top to bottom, regardless of the inside or outside of the teeth. Brush the occlusal surface back and forth, but be careful not to brush too much, otherwise it will also damage the teeth.
Myth 4: Brush your teeth incompletely. Brush only the labial side and occlusal surface, leaving the lingual side completely unattended. Dental calculus has accumulated in teeth for many years and has become bigger and bigger. These stones keep pressing on the gums, causing them to shrink. After washing teeth, you can see the "black triangle" between teeth by removing calculus. Severe dental calculus is often accompanied by bad breath, which is why many people have bad breath without smoking.
Suggestion: when brushing your teeth, you should "cover everything" and "repair both inside and outside", and you should also brush your teeth regularly to clean up the sanitary corner that you can't brush.
Myth 5: The brushing time is too short. Brush your teeth twice without eating in the morning, just clean your breath, and even use chewing gum instead of brushing your teeth for convenience; Brush your teeth after dinner at night, just don't eat rice grains and leaves. No! Whether teeth are dry or not depends on the cleanliness of dental plaque, not on the absence of food residue as seen by naked eyes.
Suggestion: The main purpose of brushing teeth is to remove dental plaque attached to the tooth surface and gingival space, and brush teeth for at least 3 minutes at a time. Even if you are on a business trip, you must brush your teeth at least once within 24 hours, especially before going to bed. There is a qualitative difference between being able to brush your teeth and not being able to brush your teeth. Repeating the wrong way of brushing your teeth every day will cause serious irreversible damage to your teeth over time.
Effectively avoiding the "minefield" of brushing teeth is the first step to love teeth. If you have any of the above wrong brushing methods, you can correct them according to the suggestions given to avoid oral problems affecting your health.