Vote for Your Health

The most common advice that the dentist repeated: daily brushing, regular checkups with the dentist, floss, etc, etc.

But other measures, less known but also effective, they also help maintain good dental health. They are offered by the American Dental Association has these suggestions to help prevent tooth decay and gum disease:

Tips:

• Maintain a healthy diet with a limited number of junk food.
• Choose foods as possible low-sugar, and as nutritious as possible.
• Drink plenty of water.
• Brush your teeth thoroughly at least twice a day using fluoride toothpaste.
• Floss daily to get rid of the plaque
• Going to the dentist regularly for preventive checkups and dental cleanings deep.
• Keep a diary for a week where noted all that is eaten. Especially note each candy, gum, soft drinks and candy to assess whether it is a healthy diet or if you can reduce this intake.

The care and cleaning children’s teeth should begin when the first teeth start to erupt, start using a toothbrush. Most young children lack the dexterity to brush teeth properly, so it is advisable for parents to brush their teeth for their children until 6 years of age and gradually teach them to use a toothbrush .

Some tips for parents:

• Must select a brush according to the child’s ag.
• Should brush the teeth 3 times daily after each meal. Children should not go to bed without having brushed their teeth.
• Make time for brushing teeth prioritizing the chewing surfaces of back teeth where decay most often formed.
• Parents should brush their teeth against their children by giving them a good example of which can learn from watching them and imitating them.
• It is important for the pediatrician to explore in subsequent mouth-child, we recommend an annual visit to the dentist from three years for revisions and treating cavities if any.

According to studies by the University of London and the University of Connecticut, carefully brush teeth, floss regularly and have good treatments at the dentist not only will you have a perfect white smile, but also help to health of his blood and heart.

The researchers conducted a test of 120 patients with severe problems of periodontitis (disease caused by bacteria in the gums). These people were recommended to address this problem through an intense treatment that involved removing bacteria, plaque, and the extraction of teeth that could not be saved.

At first, the intensive treatment resulted in an inflammation of blood vessels and arteries, but after 6 months, those receiving the treatment showed improvements in many gums and operation of vessels. In this regard, Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation argued that “it is known that people with heart problems because of malfunctioning valves can worsen their situation if they neglect their dental hygiene.

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Periodontal disease is the leading cause of tooth loss in adults, affecting three out of four people at some point in their lives.

The best way to prevent periodontal disease and dental caries, responsible for tooth loss is the use of brush teeth, floss or interproximal brushing and regular dental visits.

Keeping your natural teeth will chew more comfortably and enjoy better digestion. You will have a healthy smile, natural complement of its image and can talk more comfortably than if she had dentures.

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The dentist tells the importance of individual and clinical control in the fight against tooth decay. Explain that to avoid this problem is due to individual control. So, sanitation, which aims to control plaque, which can be eliminated by proper brushing and flossing, swish can also associate the products available in the market. On the other hand, confirms the decrease in frequency of use of sugar.

In relation to the clinical, the dentist informed that usually the practitioner uses the resources of prophylaxis with fluoride adoption, strengthening a prevention program and continually monitored by if present a problem.

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Tooth decay is the disease most often affects the oral cavity, so that is one of the most studied by specialists in dentistry. During pregnancy are a common ailment.

Its incidence caused from discomfort in the early stages until mutilation with serious psychological and aesthetic consequences, in terms of tooth loss in more advanced cases. What to do in this situation? Prevention is still the keyword.

Once installed, the cavities, the action is to treat it. Then, it is essential to find a good dentist, who will establish a recovery of the affected tooth, while providing the necessary guidance on another issue that may occur during pregnancy, which is the gingival bleeding.

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