Certain Tips for Oral Health

Abstract: It is Well known to all that, oral health is so important. Here, the shanghai dental made ​​some tips for oral health.

Tip one: Parents should help children to brush their teeth more clearly and efficiently. From the age of three to four, children's ability and coordination of the limbs significantly enhance, therefore parents and kindergarten teacher can begin to teach their children with the simplest brushing way named as "circle method" brushing. Its essentials are to place the bristles on the surface of the tooth. Then gently press the bristles to make it buckling, do some circles on the surface of the tooth, and make sure that repeat the circles on each part for more than 5 times. Pay more attention to that the anterior lingual need to be brushed upright, and ensure that you have brushed each tooth surface, including the lip buccal side, the lingual side and the occlusal surfaces.

In addition, parents should help their children to brush their teeth once a day, preferably at night, until they go to the elementary school, to ensure the brushing effect. Children should choose the most appropriate toothbrush corresponding to their own age.

Tip two: We should conduct regular oral examination. The age group from 3 years old to 6 years old is a peak periods for dental caries. At this stage, the arch began to change, that is to say, there will appear tooth gap, to prepare for the permanent teeth. However, the tooth gap could provide an easy way to lead to food impaction, and cause dental caries. We should treat the dental caries as early as possible. With an early treatment for dental caries, we need less time to treat it，suffer less pain, achieve better effect , and spend less money on it. So shanghai dental advocate preschoolers to accept oral health examination once every six months. During the oral health examination of children, at the same time, physicians should provide some targeted professional oral health guidance, to enhance parents’ and children's awareness of oral health.

Tip three: young people should pay more attention to the prevention of gingivitis. For adolescents, gingivitis manifest as bleeding gums, swollen gums, bad breath, etc, while brushing and biting hard objects. Its etiology is related to changes in sex hormone levels with puberty, but the plaque accumulation plays a critical role in it. It is the most effective way to remove plaque with effectively brushing, in order to achieve the prevention and treatment of juvenile gingivitis. After the event of bleeding gums, the youth should pay more attention to brushing. As the shanghai dental suggested, you can put a little more toothpaste on the bleeding part, then gently brush it a few times repeatedly, and combine flossing thoroughly to remove the plaque there.

Shanghai dental gives us some good advices for our protection of oral health, following which will allow us to have a healthier mouth and a healthier life.

Plublish Date: 2014-02-19