According to research there are twenty thousand million bacteria in our mouth and every day that passes without brushing our teeth and millions of new bacteria willing to make their own move.
There are nine practical recommendations for not having to visit the dentist ahead of time
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1. Acid Drink
If you have drunk an acidic drink, such as a juice or a fruit tea, it is better to drink a glass of water afterwards to rinse your mouth and dilute the acid.
But it is not advisable to brush your teeth during the hour after drinking an acidic drink, because the acid softens the tooth enamel and with brushing you can damage that protective dental layer.
2. When to brush your teeth?
Brushing immediately after eating, and especially after eating something acidic (such as orange juice), can harm tooth enamel. Ideally, do it after each meal but letting some time pass, approximately 40 minutes.
3. Proper method to brush your teeth well
According to dental specialist, it is very difficult to do well because most learn by looking at their mother and tend to repeat what she sees and catch habits from an early age.
That is why most people leave some parts of the surface of the teeth without brushing. That is partly because we brush them in a random way.
Dental specialist recommends having a method: start at one corner of the mouth and go slowly brushing and one by one each tooth, “like tickling”, until you reach the other corner.
Experts adds brush them for two minutes, twice a day, and finally don’t rinse your mouth at the end, just spit. Thus, fluoride stays in the teeth and keeps them healthy.
4. Vegetables against bad breath
The difference between a clean mouth and a mouth with bad breath is comparable to that of a river of flowing and crystalline water and a lagoon of stagnant waters.
“Ideally, saliva should flow through the mouth and take away the bacteria that cause the bad smell. But if your mouth dries for some reason, because you are nervous, or because of alcohol, or because you have been sleeping and rocking, your mouth looks like more to a pond of stagnant water.
To get rid of that bad smell of rotten waters you first need to drink water, which will wash the sulfuric compounds that are generated in the oral cavity and that cause bad breath or halitosis.
Then you can consume fibrous vegetables with a high water content, such as cucumber, celery or carrot.
Its water content cleanses the mouth and when chewed, its fibrous texture makes you generate more saliva.
“These vegetables are like a combination of a natural toothpaste and mouthwash, provided by Mother Nature. And they taste good and are cheap.
5. How to know what toothpaste to buy
Deep cleaning, cavity protection, advanced cleaning, refreshing, especially for children, for sensitive teeth. There are thousands of dental hygiene products, from pastes and rinses to brushes, which make all kinds of promises, but how to know if they work?
Experts dental doctors spoke with the Association of dentists in USA and after contrasting opinions with several experts and reviewing scientific studies, he came to this conclusion:
“If you have a good manual toothbrush, a paste with fluoride and brush your teeth for two minutes twice a day, covering the entire surface of your teeth and gums well, you’re doing everything necessary.”
“The rest of the products that many of us have in the closet, it’s not that we think they don’t work but we don’t really know if they work or not, and even if they work they probably wouldn’t add any great benefit.”
