Myth #1: Just use mouthwash to clean your mouth. Correction: Only use an antiseptic mouthwash after brushing your teeth to fully clean your mouth. The use of medicated mouthwash is even more important to follow your doctor’s instructions. Since medications often do not stay in the mouth long enough, they are even less able to reach the plaque that lies deep under the gums. Long-term use of antibacterial drugs can also cause side effects. Myth 2: Women can’t brush their teeth during the month. Correction:During pregnancy and postpartum nutrition and less exercise, gum inflammation is more likely to occur more often, should adhere to the daily use of warm water and toothpaste to brush your teeth. Myth three: when brushing the gums bleed mainly because of the lack of vitamin C. Correction: when brushing the gums bleed is an early signal of periodontal disease, but also other diseases, including leukemia and other blood diseases, one of the clinical manifestations, the lack of vitamin C is not the only reason for bleeding gums. Myth 4: daily brushing can maintain dental hygiene, teeth cleaning is for beauty, fashionable, unnecessary. Correction: In general, brushing with a toothbrush can only remove part of the plaque, it is difficult to remove tartar. Regular cleaning is a dental professional medical means rather than simply a cosmetic measure, the doctor in the teeth cleaning at the same time for the patient to check the teeth, but also facilitate the timely detection of problems and timely treatment. After cleaning and treatment also through effective brushing to maintain periodontal health. Myth 5: Scaling will lead to increased gap between the teeth, causing tooth allergies, dentin damage. Correction: ultrasonic scaler special metal tip design hardness is lower than the enamel, professionally trained dental cleaners and dentists cleaning teeth will master the skills and will not produce excessive enamel scoring. The first time you have your teeth cleaned, you may experience some discomfort because of the high amount of tartar, and the discomfort will be lessened with subsequent cleanings. Some people will have the scene of “widening gap between teeth” after cleaning, that is because under the “camouflage” of tartar, the patient does not know that due to tartar infringement, the gums have been seriously receded by the pressure, the pressure root has been seriously exposed, the teeth have become loose, and the gap between teeth has become wider, only that it has not been for a long time. Has become wider, only a long time without cleaning, so that the calculus to block and “tied”, after the completion of dental cleaning gum tissue swelling disappeared, exposing the teeth have been damaged, but mistakenly thought it was the result of dental cleaning. Myth six: only older people will get periodontal disease, “old teeth” is a natural law of necessity. Correction: Statistics show that periodontal disease is the main cause of tooth loss in people over 35 years old. In addition, due to the influence of genetic factors, some people in about 20 years of age can occur periodontal disease, and in this case the condition is more serious than the average person. Therefore, periodontal disease is by no means exclusive to older people. Healthy teeth can be accompanied by lifelong, the World Health Organization in 2001 formally put forward the “8020 campaign” plan, that is, the public to 80 years old and still want to keep 20 intact teeth. Myth 7: Advertisements introduce Chinese medicine can also treat periodontal disease, I just need to buy some Chinese medicine to take it. Correction: Many people are very good at relying on medication. In fact, the simple use of drugs is only an auxiliary measure for the treatment of periodontal disease, and can only temporarily reduce the inflammation. The key to dealing with periodontal disease also lies in cleaning plaque and other causes of periodontal disease. The most effective way to clean plaque and prevent periodontal disease is to develop good habits in daily life, such as brushing, flossing, and regular cleaning. Chinese medicine must carry out individualized dialectic treatment, improve the body’s defense and repair ability on the basis of basic periodontal treatment, and re-establish the balance between bacterial invasion and host defense, so as to improve the treatment efficiency and reduce recurrence. Myth 8: Drug toothpaste can cure periodontal disease. Correction: it is only oral health care aids, is not a cure. According to the effect can be divided into: anti-caries toothpaste, anti-gingivitis toothpaste, stain removal toothpaste, anti-allergy toothpaste. Different effects of toothpaste should be used alternately. Children should use children’s toothpaste, medication toothpaste for children to use with caution. Toothpaste should be bought and used now, pay attention to the shelf life, allergies should be stopped immediately. Myth nine: knocking teeth and massage gums help periodontal health. Correction: knocking and massaging the gums is to promote blood circulation in periodontal tissues, improve periodontal tissue nutrition, delay and prevent gum recession, as far as possible to preserve the function of the teeth. However, we must pay attention to careful medical advice, must be in the basic treatment of periodontal disease, local inflammation control can be tried, do not use too much force or too many times in a row, so as not to damage the periodontal tissues have been destroyed. Myth 10: Smoking only causes tooth surface pigmentation, but can be anti-inflammatory sterilization, does not affect periodontal health. Correction: Smoking is one of the important contributing factors to periodontal disease. Tobacco combustion release of heat and accumulation of harmful products, etc. is a localized irritant, so that the gingival keratinization increased and the appearance of brown tar-like deposits on the tooth surface, promote plaque and tartar amount increased, easy to induce or aggravate the symptoms of periodontal disease. In addition, smoking can make the oral mucosa to form white spots, long-term containing smoke between the upper and lower lips, will make the oral white spots continue to be stimulated by high temperature, and cracks and ulcers. Long-standing ulcers are also one of the factors that cause cancer. Myth 11: bad breath is caused by “fire”. Correction: According to clinical statistics, most of the bad breath is from the mouth itself. For example, the mouth has untreated tooth decay, gingivitis, periodontal disease and oral mucosal disease can cause bad breath. Halitosis may also develop if the patient has a disease that reduces salivary secretion, such as dry syndrome, radiation therapy for tumors after light. In addition, other systemic diseases such as: respiratory diseases, digestive diseases, diabetes, uremia, leukemia and other diseases can also cause bad breath. Therefore, the problem of bad breath can not be ignored, need to consult a doctor in time. Myth 12: extraction is too painful, I do not want to pull teeth, free time to treat periodontal disease. Correction: The longer the periodontal disease is delayed, the more the alveolar bone is destroyed, which may cause an increase in the number of extracted teeth in the future, and may also lead to the aggravation of pain after extraction; and the height of the dental bed is getting lower and lower, which will increase the difficulty of prosthetic restoration, so it is necessary to seize the opportunity and treat it as early as possible.