Did you brush your teeth properly today?

Proper brushing can remove soft enough, dirt, clean the mouth, reduce or prevent the occurrence of caries and other dental diseases. If brushing is not done properly, it will not only be unhelpful, but will also damage the teeth and the surrounding soft tissues. What is the best way to brush your teeth? First, let’s look at a common incorrect brushing method – horizontal brushing. As the name suggests, brushing horizontally is brushing along the arch of the teeth from front to back in a saw-like manner, which is particularly time-saving, labor-saving and worry-free. This way of brushing the crown of the outside of the dirt into the teeth, while the bristles stimulate the gums to the root shrinkage, premature exposure of the neck of the tooth root, and thus prone to the formation of wedge-shaped defects. This disease is light when the teeth of cold, hot, sour and sweet stimuli such as allergy pain; heavy may damage the pulp, causing severe toothache, affecting dietary health. There are many people also know that horizontal brushing method is not good, change to vertical tooth brushing method, but do not know how. Here we introduce the correct way of brushing, the flicking method. The flicking method used to be called the vertical brushing method. Specific practice is to first put the toothbrush bristles on the side of the lips, cheeks (outside) or tongue, palate side of the inner surface of the teeth, bristles and teeth parallel to the long axis of the body, the tip of the bristles toward the root of the tooth, close to the gums and teeth, and then rotate the toothbrush to the occlusal surface of the direction of the long axis of the teeth at an angle of about 45 degrees, gently press the gums, the gap along the bite to the occlusal surface (maxillary teeth from the upper to the lower, mandibular teeth by the lower upward), with the picking brush movement, brush to go! Dirt. For occlusal surfaces, the bristles can be pressed against the occlusal surfaces and pulled backward and forward. When brushing teeth to develop a careful and serious habit, it is best to divide the whole mouth teeth according to the upper and lower left and right into a number of areas, and then according to a certain order of brushing, such as the first up and then down, the first left and then right, the first outside and then inside, so that the lips (cheeks), tongue (palate) and occlusal surfaces can be brushed to the occlusal surfaces, so that not to be missed. And for several times to repeat, brushing the force used for the item gums and teeth to exert a certain force not to produce pain can be. After brushing, you should rinse your mouth with a certain amount of force to rinse out the soft dirt that has been brushed down.