1, precautions for dental care
1, you can't just brush your teeth when washing your teeth.
If the exposed surface area of each tooth is counted as the possible contaminated area, then brushing can only clean about 70% of the area, and it is difficult to clean the gap between the side of the tooth and the last four molars in the upper and lower rows by brushing.
How to use dental floss correctly: I suggest you search the video, which is very easy to find. Wrap a thread around two fingers, and then rub it back and forth between the teeth near the tooth side. After cleaning every gap, take out some new dental floss and clean the next gap with a clean piece. The best effect is to wash it once a day before going to bed.
It should be noted that you should brush your teeth first, then floss, then rinse your mouth and spit out the residue after flossing. Flossing is no substitute for brushing your teeth.
2. Consequences of not brushing your teeth
What happens if you don't brush your teeth and floss? The consequences of not brushing and flossing are very serious, because bacteria will multiply in gums and tooth surfaces. Generally speaking, most of them will reproduce downward, that is, under the gums, and calculus will appear under the gums. A large number of pathogenic bacteria will live on dental calculus, and then gums will bleed and become inflamed. If you are not careful, bacteria will continue to propagate along the tooth surface to the alveolar bone. These anaerobic bacteria make a living by decomposing bones, and alveolar bones will be digested. Teeth are fixed by alveolar bone, so teeth will start to loosen after alveolar bone is absorbed.
Healthy alveolar bone will wrap the whole root and only expose the crown, but the absorbed alveolar bone will expose the root, so it will loosen. Once the alveolar bone is digested by bacteria, it cannot be recovered. The best situation is to maintain the current alveolar bone height through treatment, and it is impossible for alveolar bone to recover to its previous height. This is also the reason why the teeth of the elderly will fall out. Even if you brush your teeth, some alveolar bones will be digested by bacteria for a long time, resulting in loose teeth.
3. Three questions about wisdom teeth
Why are there wisdom teeth? Most people have four wisdom teeth, some will grow out in their early twenties, some will even grow out in their forties, and some will never grow out. Wisdom teeth are the third molars of human beings. However, due to the fine processing of food, the jaw width of Homo erectus gradually shrinks, leaving less room for the third molars, which often leads to wrong angles. The triangle formed in this way is very difficult to clean, but food scraps are very easy to enter. This is the hidden danger.
There is no room for the third molar to grow. Compared with gorillas and homo erectus, the space formed by human jaws can only accommodate the width of two molars. After the third molar germinates in a narrow space, various angles will appear.
What are the hazards of wisdom teeth? Because it is inconvenient to clean and easy to accumulate food residues, the probability of dental caries here is high, and even the adjacent second molar is prone to dental caries, pericoronitis of the second molar, and sulcus bone is easily absorbed seriously. In addition, the abutment of wisdom teeth on the second molar causes the pain of the second molar, which is the most common problem of wisdom teeth.
Do you have wisdom teeth? Wisdom teeth have no dental caries and diseases, and the adjacent teeth (second molar) have no lesions, and the angle is not too biased, so they can form occlusion up and down. In this case, wisdom teeth can't be pulled out. In fact, such people have a group of molars (four useful molars) and have an innate chewing advantage, but such people account for a very small proportion in the crowd.
Generally speaking, the angle of the left and right wisdom teeth in the lower row is very incorrect, while the angle in the upper row is much normal. If the wisdom teeth in the lower row have been pulled out and can't bite with the teeth in the upper row, the wisdom teeth in the upper row will grow downward until they grind to the lower gums, which will be very painful. In addition, the wisdom teeth in the upper row are difficult to clean and easy to be eroded by bacteria. If other teeth can be used normally until the age of 70, then wisdom teeth may have problems or even be damaged by the age of 50.
4. Don't resist washing your teeth.
Don't worry about the "thinning" of teeth. Big doctor called tooth cleaning supragingival scaling. At present, ultrasonic dental scalers are basically used in surgery. Dental plaque is the main cause of gingivitis and periodontitis. These plaques gradually form and combine with minerals to form tartar. Healthy gums should be tightly wrapped around teeth, but with tartar, gums are wrapped around tartar, accompanied by inflammation, swelling and even suppuration.
People with severe tartar will feel that their teeth become thinner after washing, so they are worried that washing will hurt their teeth. In fact, the washed teeth are the real situation of the teeth, especially after the gingival inflammation subsides, there will be cracks in the teeth. In fact, these are all manifestations of alveolar bone absorption. If you don't wash your teeth in time, it will aggravate the erosion of alveolar bone and gums by bacteria.
Severe periodontitis Severe periodontitis will cause severe alveolar bone absorption and root exposure, which can be removed as long as it is pulled. Subgingival scaling can be used for general people to wash their teeth once every six months, and once every three months if the periodontal condition is not good. If the doctor finds that dental calculus is serious or has periodontitis, he may suggest that you do subgingival scaling, that is, scrape the dental calculus and plaque inside the gums with various scaling instruments. This method is very painful, but it is also a necessary treatment for periodontitis. Moreover, because the dental plaque under the gum is not clear, it belongs to blind scraping, and it is easy to miss some dental plaque.
Do you need polishing after washing your teeth? After polishing, the tooth surface will be smoother, and tartar is not easy to condense on the teeth, which can be considered. Some people worry that polishing will damage teeth, which is excessive worry. The hardness of enamel is very high, and the material of leather wheel used for polishing is much softer than that of ultrasonic probe used for tooth cleaning, which will not cause harm to teeth.
The natural color of teeth is light yellow. I brush my teeth carefully, floss my teeth and wash my teeth. Equally necessary, statistics show that even after careful brushing, bacteria will begin to multiply on teeth in about 30 minutes, because there are always a lot of bacteria in our mouth. These bacteria have the opportunity to form tartar with minerals in saliva, which is inevitable for anyone, so everyone needs to wash their teeth.
5. How to protect your teeth?
How to protect children's teeth, we should develop the habit of brushing twice a day before changing teeth and flossing once at night, and do orthodontics (wear large steel braces) when necessary after changing teeth. Although the cost is high, the average cost of this project in Gome is about $6,500, so it is much cheaper in China. After orthodontics, not only the teeth are neat and beautiful, but also the chances of food residue are greatly reduced because the teeth are arranged neatly, so special attention should be paid to cleaning the teeth during plastic surgery.
Each of us should get into the habit of having dental care every 3-6 months. Doctors usually take care of their teeth every time (washing teeth and removing stones). If there is gum inflammation, they will take medicine and pull out wisdom teeth when appropriate.
2, the harm of tooth washing
(1) makes the tooth gap bigger.
Due to the incomplete oral cleaning in daily habits, dental calculus accumulates on the teeth, which leads to gingival atrophy between teeth. If the calculus is cleaned at this time, the gap between teeth will become larger because there is no gum filling.
(2) obvious cold and hot stimulation
When tartar accumulates between the gums and teeth to a certain extent, it will stimulate the root part, thus isolating the external stimulation to the gums to a certain extent. Once the tartar on the teeth is cleaned, it will expose the root of the tooth and make the teeth sensitive to cold and hot stimuli. At this time, it is best to go to the hospital for regular nursing, do not eat spicy food, and strictly ensure oral hygiene.
(3) The teeth are obviously loose.
Some friends will suffer from periodontal disease due to the long-term accumulation of tartar, and the gums will begin to shrink. After cleaning the tartar, you will obviously feel the teeth loose. At this time, special periodontal treatment is recommended.
(4) Damage to gums
When the tartar is completely removed, it may leak from the root. If professional treatment is not carried out in time, it will damage the gums, which will not only make patients feel unbearable pain, but also aggravate the formation of periodontal disease.