Everything You Need to Know About Cavities – Part II
Part I introduced you to the key players involved in tooth decay and touched on the importance of maintaining a neutral pH level inside the mouth. This next part will elaborate on pH balance, the different types of cavities and what you can do to prevent tooth decay. You’d never have to worry about tooth decay if you didn’t eat. Of course, you wouldn’t have to worry about much because you would die. But eat we do, every day, and the foods we choose aren’t always the best. When we eat carbohydrates, the body breaks them down into sugars including [...]
Everything You Need to Know About Cavities – Part I
The pain definitely tells us when we have cavities, but few of us understand why we get them. You likely know that poor dental hygiene causes cavities, but do you understand why not brushing or flossing causes cavities? In order to understand all that’s involved in the making of a cavity, you’ve got to first understand the key players. Those players include saliva, pellicle, plaque and calculus and each resides in the mouth. Saliva is really important when it comes to protecting teeth and keeping our mouths healthy. Saliva keeps teeth, gums and other tissues inside the mouth lubricated and [...]
Cleaning Your Teeth and Gums – Tooth Brushing
Removing plaque from your teeth and gums is what proper dental care is all about. Daily, you can handle this task on your own by brushing right and flossing. Twice a year, however, you should let a professional take a look inside your mouth. When it comes to brushing your teeth, you’re probably going through the motions, but not actually brushing efficiently. In fact, you could be damaging your gums and/or leaving plaque behind. And if you’re not flossing to remove the plaque you missed while brushing, your teeth may slowly be decaying. There are several ways you can brush [...]
Cleaning Your Teeth and Gums – Flossing
Brushing your teeth properly is an effective way of removing plaque, that sticky white substance that grows in between and along the bottom of teeth and along the gum line. But rarely will tooth brushing alone remove all plaque, no matter how good a job you do. To ensure you remove every bit of plaque from your teeth, you’ve got to remember to floss. While most people will make the effort to brush in the morning and at night, few take that extra step of flossing. Rather than flossing daily, they’ll floss weekly or worse, they just don’t floss at [...]
Caring for, Cleaning and Replacing Your Toothbrush
How long has it been since you started using that toothbrush you used this morning? Is it fairly new? Is it a month old? Two? Three? Is it older than that? If you’re still using the same toothbrush you were using three months ago or worse, even longer, then get yourself to the store and purchase a new one as soon as possible! You need to regularly replace your toothbrush because over time, the bristles are going to start breaking down. You’ll know when this is happening because they’ll start looking frayed and they’ll flare outwards. Once this breakdown starts [...]
Food and Your Teeth
Eating sweets is bad for your teeth, but do you know why? Do you know that even eating ‘good’ foods can be bad for your teeth or that eating at certain times during the day is better than others? If you don’t understand that when and what you eat can affect your teeth, then read on. The problems all revolve around plaque, that sticky, whitish substance that covers your teeth after you eat. As you probably already know, carbohydrates break down into sugars, the fructose, maltose, glucose and lactose that fuel our bodies. We think this process happens after food [...]
The Importance of Dental Care
Everybody knows that dental care is what helps keep our smiles white and our teeth bright. But the reasons why proper dental care is so important go much deeper than that. Proper dental care is crucial if you want to keep your teeth from decaying and possibly even falling out for good. That may sound drastic but it is true. A cavity results from tooth decay and dentures or dental implants are the end result of teeth that have decayed beyond repair. Poor nutrition and lifestyle habits such as cigarette smoking can both contribute to tooth decay, but by far [...]
Today’s Quick Tip: Brush Properly
Food stuck on teeth can cause bad breath. You have to brush twice a day. It isn’t just enough though, to brush at a random pattern. Brushing should last for at least 3 minutes. Be sure to include the back portion of your teeth and the teeth located at farthest portion of your mouth. Some dentists recommend brushing at a downward or outward motion to help get rid of food particles and bacteria. Do you know the real causes of bad breath? Discover the truth about bad breath. Download this easy-to-read FREE guide to help YOU experience fresh breath every [...]
Contributors to Bad Breath
It is a known fact that poor oral hygiene is the most common cause of bad breath. But the case can be even worse if they are coupled with eating certain types of food that can cause bad breath. Some of them are the following: Onions and garlic – the two are probably the most common ingredients that are associated with bad breath. They contain sulfur compounds which give them their distinct smell and, unfortunately for those who consume them, bad breath. Milk – dairy products like milk can also cause halitosis. Dairy products contain protein which produces an unpleasant [...]
Brushing Correctly
For most people, brushing their teeth becomes a mere ritual to be gotten over as quickly as possible. But, if you don’t learn how to brush your teeth and the surrounding areas correctly, then you may be on your way to experiencing a terrible case of bad breath. The first step to a good brush is by brushing the teeth, gums, tongue and the inside of the cheeks with a dry toothbrush and without toothpaste. This ensures that much of the bacteria that reside on the surfaces are removed. After then, brushing with toothpaste can commence. When brushing your teeth, [...]
