Common Sense of Tooth Protection when Brushing With Bamboo Toothbrush

Common sense of tooth protection when brushing with bamboo toothbrush
1. Knocking can enhance the health of tooth supporting tissues, just like exercising, it can also stimulate the secretion of saliva and clean the tooth surface. The method of knocking is simple, and everyone can do it. Its method is: close your lips, bite and tap the upper and lower teeth in the up and down direction, each time you tap more than one hundred times, cooperate with the brushing every morning to develop a habit.
2. Brush your teeth, this is the most common method. People are brushing their teeth, but not many people brush their teeth well and seriously. The so-called good brushing is to clean the surfaces of each tooth. Brush at least once a day in the morning and evening. The correct way to brush your teeth is to rotate the upper teeth from top to bottom, and the lower teeth from bottom to top. Brush the upper and lower front teeth along the gap between the teeth, and brush back and forth between the chewing teeth. In order to brush the tooth surface cleanly, a health-care toothbrush with a small brush head, soft bristles and elasticity must be used. To prevent dental caries and periodontal disease, it is best to use toothpaste containing sodium fluoride or chlorhexidine. Toothpaste containing sodium fluoride or strontium chloride can also relieve tooth hypersensitivity.
3. Flick your teeth, some food impacted into plaque is difficult to remove by brushing your teeth. It is best to use a dental probe to gently pick out the impacted food to clean the plaque. Some people are accustomed to using toothpicks, but you must not use too much force, so as not to puncture the gums or even cause alveolar bone resorption.
4. Rinse your mouth, pay attention to gargle, rinse with warm water after a meal or after cleaning your teeth to rinse out the food residues in the oral cavity. In ancient my country, it is a good way to use tea to rinse your mouth, because tea contains fluorine, which can prevent caries, and it also contains tannins, which is also good for preventing gingivitis.
Add a little salt to the mouthwash, usually with a slightly salty taste, and it also has a certain effect on preventing gum inflammation. Adding certain drugs to the mouthwash, such as 0.2% chlorhexidine or 0.2% sodium fluoride solution, has a better anti-caries effect.
Choice of toothbrush
(1) The size of the toothbrush head: According to the regulations of the association, the length of the toothbrush head should be 2.5～3cm, the width should be 0.8～1cm, there are 2～4 rows of bristles, each row of 5～12 bundles of bristles, the front end of the toothbrush head should be It is round and blunt. These regulations are for people to refer to when choosing a toothbrush.
(2) The hardness of the bristles: Generally, it can be divided into three types: soft, neutral, and hard. Normally, a toothbrush with neutral hardness is more suitable. When buying a toothbrush, you can press the bristles with your fingers. If your fingers are irritating, it means it is too hard and should not be used.
(3) The angle between the brush head and the handle: commercially available toothbrushes have two types: linear and angular. The straight type is more powerful when used, and the angled toothbrush has a better cleaning effect on the back teeth.
(4) Special toothbrushes: periodontal disease patients or older people, with receding gums, increased interdental space, and concave toothbrushes specially used for dentition correction. The outer two rows of bristles of this kind of toothbrush are larger than the middle two rows of bristles. The bristles are long. People with inconvenient hands and feet, such as stroke patients, can choose an electric toothbrush.