Oral Hygiene

Oral Hygiene in dental and oral health is important, several oral and dental problems occur because we do not maintain the cleanliness of the mouth and teeth.

Oral Hygiene awareness is very necessary to maintain and is a drug preventing dental problems and mouth is the most potent. Would not it be better to prevent than to cure?

In ways that can be done alone and I think effective in maintaining oral hygiene such as:

a. brush your teeth: everyone already knows of course how this one, may also have done every day. So that is important here is the introduction of the right toothbrush technique, motivated to brush your teeth regularly and with proper selection of toothpaste. Toothbrush technique is commonly known horizontally general, and it is a mistake because in this way can eventually lead to gingival recession and tooth abrasion. Furthermore, these diseases will be easier periondontal happen.

Selection of a soft bristle brush is also important so as not to injure your gums. Toothbrushes should be replaced at least once each month, thus fur brush is still effective in cleaning teeth. Fluoride toothpaste should be selected because of the fluoride content of the study was able to reduce the number of caries in 2 things: eliminate the dental plaque that is the origin of caries, and topical fluoride supplements for dental as minerals important protective against caries.

b. Gargle-gargle antiseptic (Oral Rinse): there are various active ingredients that are often used as a gargle-gargle. Counter generally derived from vegetable oils such as metal salicylates (such as Listerine product), while the necessary prescription is chlorhexidine 0.20% (as in product minosep) and H2O2 1.5% or 3.0%.Gargle-gargle a cheaper and quite effective way is with warm salt water.

Actually gargle-gargle more is needed on specific diseases and periodontal gum while in daily use are not proven in preventing caries, especially if the user does not begin with a toothbrush. So it is important to note that gargle-gargle is no substitute for a toothbrush and toothbrush remains the most important prevention of dental diseases, particularly caries.Even if the mouthwash-gargle too frequent use will cause the normal flora of mouth will die and stimulate the growth of candida and also make a dry mouth and burning.

c. Dental floss or dental floss: lately how this started many introduced, and powerful enough to clean in between teeth. But the technique must be understood properly because if not, rather than prevent periodontal disease, which occurs even injure the gums and create inflammation.

d. Cleaner tongue: also been widely used, both to clean the lingual dorsum which is often missed when we clean the toothbrush. Piles of debris on the dorsum of the tongue is full of germs and candida opportunist who live as normal flora and transient. Explanation of how once again needed.

Maybe after making efforts to maintain oral health is good and true that we assume the control to the dentist is not important, but the control to the dentist on a regular basis is required as one of the preventive measures, because they're the experts and sometimes we ourselves are often missed observing the changes in teeth and gums are still small.

For those who do not have a mouth or dental problems should be performed 6 months control, but if have problems such as oral and dental tissue disease control should be performed 3 months.