5 Easy Ways to Maintain Healthy Teeth and Gums
Maintaining optimum oral hygiene is quite easy if you follow a strict oral hygiene regimen every day. After all, your mouth is the gateway to your body and a healthy mouth often means a healthy body!
Here’s how you can maintain your teeth and gums-
- Practice apt brushing
Brushing right is important for healthy gums, but avoid brushing too hard. For appropriate brushing just apply a little pressure on your teeth. Opt for a toothbrush with soft bristles and hold it at a 45-degree angle to ensure that the bristles don’t damage your gums.Ask your dentist to teach you the correct technique of brushing. A bad toothbrush and improper brushing causes more harm than it does good.
2.The Magic of Rinsing
Brushing: Check. Flossing: Check. Well, as long as you’re taking an interest in oral hygiene, why not do it to the fullest? Rinsing your mouth often helps fight bacteria that lead to bad breath as well as gum diseases. So yes, rinse regularly!
3. Cut the Sugar
Sugar is a major culprit in tooth decay. It fuels bacteria present in the plaque to start breaking down the sugar laden food stuck in your teeth and produce acid which damages away your enamel and gums.
4. Clean your teeth with food
Eating certain foods can actually clean your teeth! Food such as celery, apples and raw carrots can really aid the health of your teeth and eating one of these after your meal every day will help remove plaque.
5. Cut the cigarettes and other forms of tobacco
You’ve heard it right: Quit smoking! The nicotine and tar in cigarettes not only turn your teeth into an unsightly shade of yellow and brown, but also damage your gums, and eventually, increases your risk of tooth loss.Cigarette smoking, bettlenut and aracanut chewing and consuming other forms of tobacco has also been proven to cause precancerous and cancerous lesions in the mouth.
Don’t forget to visit your dentist for regular checkups, as it’s vital to your oral hygiene. Look after your smile – it’s one of your most important assets.
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