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Maintaining good oral hygiene
Steps to having a healthy mouth and beautiful
1. Brush the teeth on both faces.
Brushing your teeth is not the only step that must be followed if you have a healthy mouth, but one of the most important. Brush your teeth well, both the outer face of the same as the interior.
2. Three brushed daily.
It is important that we brush our teeth three times a day: after breakfast, lunch and dinner. After each meal is enhanced production of bacteria in our mouth, so that brushing is vital.
3. Brush or gum.
If you can not brush your teeth after eating try to eat a stick of gum, though, always without sugar. When we chew gum produce saliva, which helps fight bacteria that remain in the mouth after every meal.
4. The enguaje mouth.
Use mouthwash is very effective and refreshing and comes to the points between your teeth inaccessible to your brush. It is advisable to rinse your mouth with mouthwash after each brushing, but also can be done independently.
5. And now floss.
Do not forget the dental floss is the best way to remove food debris that can get between teeth and enhance the production of bacteria.
6. Diet important.
Maintain a healthy balanced diet, trying to reduce sugar intake and increase fruit. A healthy diet is synonymous with a healthier mouth.
7. At the dentist once a year.
Go to the dentist more regularly! Experts advise to go at least once a year.
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Rabbit Teeth
Small children sometimes have a front tooth is larger or more advanced than the other teeth, often called rabbit teeth. What is the cause of this rabbit teeth?Such dental condition known as ‘buck teeth’. Children who have rabbit teeth are often the subject of teasing among friends.
Although the form of teeth like this look harmless, but can cause health problems because of the suitability of an unhealthy tooth.
As quoted from Atlantadentist.com, Saturday (05/06/2010) conditions such teeth can be caused by genetic factors or the effects of thumb-sucking as an infant or child that lasts a long time.
Thumb is that a lot of bad habits by children, because it is believed to give special pleasure to these children.
Most children will stop this habit between the ages of 2-4 years. But to prevent the occurrence of ‘rabbit teeth’ could not hurt to stop this habit early.
In addition, genetic factors are also thought to play a role in conditions such teeth. Although not yet known with certainty relations.
If this tooth form to prevent complete closure of the lips, it will be very embarrassing and unsightly.
If not repaired immediately can cause some problems, because the more advanced position so that the tooth susceptible to collision or the inability to eat and chew properly. Read the rest of this entry »
Dental Health
1. What do we mean by dental health?
Dental health refers to all aspects of health and functioning of our mouth especially the teeth and gums. In addition to afford to eat, talk, laugh (look nice), teeth and gums should be free of infections that can cause cavities, gum inflammation, tooth loss and bad breath.
Caries, also known as cavities, is the most common disease of the teeth. The main factors to control caries are oral hygiene, fluoride use and moderate consumption of cariogenic foods.
Teeth are also affected by “tooth wear” or erosion. This is a normal process that occurs with age, as they lost tooth enamel due to exposure from acids other than those produced by plaque.
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Vitamin B12 for Treating Ulcers
A small study suggests that vitamin B12 would be a safe, effective and economical against recurrent thrush.
“The frequency (of recurrent thrush) is 25 percent in the general population,” said Ilia Volkov, the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
The cause of recurrent thrush. In these years, tried various treatments, such as adhesive pastes, antiseptics, vitamins, herbs and steroids.
Although these treatments reduce pain or the number of injuries in the short term, very few proved to have a lasting effect.
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How Bad Breath Happens
When halitosis originates in the oral cavity can be several causes: the presence of caries, periodontal disease, bleeding or inadequate positioning of the teeth to proper oral hygiene prevents food residue left in the mouth.
Another cause of bad breath what is the decrease in saliva in the mouth is known as dry mouth.
This may be due to factors such as age, stress or snoring during sleep.
An interesting fact is that some low-carb diets cause a condition called “the smell of hunger”, which is the result of ketosis or incomplete use of body fat.
As the doctor Pizarro, sometimes bad breath can become a chronic problem, and the sooner the patient is evaluated, the better.
What caused the smell?
As noted above, bacteria are the most common cause of bad breath, they form what is known as plaque.
Bacteria reproduce at a tremendous speed, and if they find ideal habitat in our mouths are added scraps here and there, bacterial reproduction is much greater.
What promotes bad breath?
In addition to the dangerous acids that lead to cavities, bacteria release volatile sulfur compounds that give off an odor. Is a characteristic of these microorganisms is reversed only when we eliminate from our mouths. Precisely for this purpose have been created countless tricks. Some, like chewing gum or mints are limited to only mask the odor. Others, however, as antibacterial mouthwashes, toothpaste, tongue cleaner or eliminate these germs, but their action is only temporary, says Dr. Pizarro.
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Bad Breath Problem
The death struggle against bad breath – halitosis – has given birth to chewing gum and mouthwash to fun tongue cleaners. The latest in this matter is TriOral, a substance that liberates us for twelve hours of the smelly bacteria.
There is no human (except infants) can maintain for several hours fresh breath without little help from a toothpaste, a mouth or a timely wipe gum. And the bad morning breath, no doubt, no one pound!.
Responsible for this whiff we sometimes betrays the worst are the millions of bacteria that swarm in our mouth, especially on the surface of the tongue that is where most of it. Not in vain in the range range of alternatives to improve the breath, the tongue cleaner holds a special place.
Vital differences
Significantly, one thing is bad breath naturally occurs in all after a few hours, and another thing is the bad breath that affects an ongoing basis. In the latter case the poor bearing the name of halitosis. In 90 percent of cases, halitosis comes from the mouth. However, it also can be caused by the respiratory, digestive or due to systemic disease. Other causes of halitosis may be the cigarette, alcohol and even our kind of food.
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Dental Caries
Dental caries is a disease much more expansive than it should, it affects children and adults and causes more embarrassing is the action of sugars. Good hygiene after each meal and food intake are low in sugars are the best allies to prevent this inconvenience, which may lead to the loss of a tooth.
Tooth decay causes the loss or disintegration of the flesh or bone of the teeth, as a result of the action of acid producing bacteria to break down sugars in the diet. We must also bear in mind that foods rich in starch, can cause tooth decay.
When sitting at the table we prefer calcium-rich foods (whole or skim milk), yogurt, cheese, fish with bones (sardines or salmon), watercress, broccoli, almonds, calcium-rich mineral waters and soybeans. We must also include foods rich in vitamin D, which enhance calcium absorption, among them we find the fish, like sardines, herring, tuna, salmon, mackerel and trout.
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Protect Teeth During Adolescence
Generally it is proven that periodontal disease, may occur in greater numbers during adolescence, lack of oral hygiene practice.
Therefore highlighted above it is important to teach children from small to maintain their oral hygiene, because if the habit is acquired before age 13, certainly at this stage have fewer disadvantages for the child to brush their teeth and keep clean avoiding diseases, unwanted.
Also hormonal changes typical of this period significantly increased the number of teens who have periodontal disease in this regard as progesterone and estrogen, cause increased blood circulation in the gums, making them become much more sensitive, and this may in turn produce some irritability, swelling, redness, and various diseases that cause unwanted discomfort in adolescents.
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Food Can Help Dental Hygiene
We know they need to brush and floss two to three times a day to protect our teeth, but scientists are beginning to understand how our diet can fight tooth decay and build strong teeth. Here I bring you a list of foods you should eat daily for a healthy smile.
Apples: This luscious fruit increases saliva flow, which leads to bacteria and keep our mouth moist, which prevents that will be forming plaque and cavities.
Soy and Eggs: Protein rich foods like eggs and soybeans, among many others, takes the cells, which helps maintain blood flow to the nerves that are within our teeth.
Carrots, celery and peppers or bell peppers, crunchy vegetables cleaned and stimulate gums. They also contain vitamin C, which regenerates collagen, which is the basic ingredient of the fabric we have in the gums.
Dark Chocolate: Recent studies show that the sweets contain chemicals that help fight plaque build. However, it is recommended to go for a chocolate that has an eighty percent cocoa, because milk and sugar added can counteract the effect.
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Dental Health Tips
Prevention and regular visits to our dentist of trust are the key to having healthy teeth, but also to have proper oral health and maintain healthy teeth should take into account:
Learn how to detect dental plaque biofilm (microorganism accumulated deposit on the teeth), by revealing substances to remove when we brush our teeth.
Use fluoride toothpaste or mouthwash that should be indicated by the specialist, by age of patient.
Visit the dentist for topical fluoride every six months.
Reduce intake of sugars, sweets and candies, especially those that stick to soft teeth, and acting on the microorganisms associated with caries. In addition to easily adhere to the chewing surfaces, and contribute to bacterial growth.
Eat foods rich in fiber, apples, carrots, milk, vegetables in general and maintain a diet rich in minerals and proteins that help keep our teeth strong and healthy.
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