In our daily life, we must pay attention to tooth protection. In Japan, many elderly people can eat with their families and enjoy the delicious food on the table before they die. Nowadays, many people don't live in oral care, and people will have various oral problems in their old age and can't eat normally. From now on, provide chewing power, pay attention to oral health and have a happy old age. How to improve chewing ability? Chewing 3 times per bite < P > Chewing can not only increase cerebral blood flow, but also stimulate the satiety center of the brain, making people feel full easily. In addition, chewing can stimulate saliva production and help break down food. Chew more, you will eat less, and it will be better for digestion. Chew hard chewing gum to increase saliva secretion

As you get older, the saliva secretion of elders will decrease, resulting in dry mouth and easy breeding of bacteria. One way to make saliva secrete is to "bite more".

Chewing hard gum can promote saliva secretion, thus helping to clean the mouth. Practice healthy mouth yoga to reduce the probability of choking

For the elders who are slowly suffering from the deterioration of chewing, swallowing and coordination, when watching TV or in leisure, they can massage more to stimulate their lips and cheeks, practice swallowing and buckle their teeth, and even do healthy mouth yoga before eating, which can effectively reduce the probability of choking when eating. How to maintain oral hygiene? Brush your teeth twice a day

It is out of date. Hero Kawahara, a famous Japanese dentist, brushes his teeth at least six times a day: after breakfast and brunch, during work breaks, after work, and before going to bed. Dentist Huang Mingyu said that it is necessary to brush your teeth after meals. If you really can't do it, you'd better rinse your mouth and brush your teeth at least twice a day. Don't forget to clean the soft tissues of the mouth

Besides massaging the gums and cleaning the tongue coating, caregivers can use sponges to clean the teeth, tongue and mucous folds of the mouth and even use mouthwash to eliminate periodontal bacteria for elders with mobility difficulties or who have no teeth. Be sure to floss and brush between teeth

The abutment surface between teeth is the favorite hiding place of dental plaque. For children, teenagers or people without periodontal disease, use wax-free dental floss; If the gap between teeth is large, especially for patients with periodontal disease whose gums have shrunk, interdental brushing is the main method, supplemented by dental floss. Removable dentures should also be cleaned

Removable dentures still have a lot of gaps, which will also form tartar and bacteria. Choose a soft toothbrush, clean the tartar, and then soak it in denture cleaning solution for about 3 minutes a day to free the buried things in the tiny gaps on the resin surface. Change the toothbrush in two months

The toothbrush should be cleaned without hurting the teeth, and the brush head can be smaller, which can go deep into the rear teeth, and it is appropriate to brush about 2 ~ 3 teeth at a time. If you look at the back of the toothbrush, the bristles have turned out, or have been used for 6 ~ 8 weeks, and there is deposition at the bottom of the bristles, you should replace the toothbrush. What do you eat to improve your chewing ability? Eat more vegetables and fruits < P > Especially celery. The thick fiber can help sweep away food residues, and it can stimulate saliva secretion because you need to chew hard. Fruits and vegetables rich in vitamin C can maintain gum health, such as guava, sweet pepper, cauliflower, tomato, papaya, apple, citrus fruit, etc. The polysaccharide contained in Lentinus edodes can inhibit the bacteria in the mouth from making dental plaque; Onion sulfide can kill Streptococcus mutans, which causes tooth decay. Eating cheese can supplement calcium

Cheese can increase the calcium on the tooth surface, and the phosphate and calcium in it can balance the acid-base value of the mouth. Drinking green tea

Green tea contains a lot of fluorine, which can combine with apatite of teeth, resist acid and prevent tooth decay, and remove bad breath at the same time. Drinking water can keep gums moist, stimulate saliva secretion and take away food residues. Yogurt

is rich in probiotics, which can improve breath, and the situation of dental plaque and gingivitis is relatively reduced. ?