If you start to clog your teeth, it basically means that there is something wrong with your teeth. Don’t think that the blockage is not a disease, a normal good teeth will not move to retain food, often blocked teeth may have dental caries, or periodontal disease, or teeth wear too much, or the treatment of teeth is not thorough enough – cavity is not filled, the shape of the restoration is not good, etc.. The roots of our teeth are fixed by the alveolar bone, and the gums are wrapped around the alveolar bone, they keep the teeth closely together one by one, and although the teeth are not motionless when chewing, they basically do not squeeze out the gaps to let the food take advantage. However, if you do not pay attention to oral hygiene, the toxins produced by food residues will slowly stimulate the gums to become inflamed, and frequent inflammation of the gums will stimulate the alveolar bone, the inflamed alveolar bone slowly resorbs and becomes lower and lower, and the gums wrapped around it slowly shrink, so that the exposed tooth roots will become more and more, and the power to fix it becomes less and less, and the teeth will slowly loosen. Perhaps this subtle loosening you usually do not even notice, but once you have to eat those tough and difficult to bite food, the trouble comes. When you bite into a tough piece of beef playfully grinding, with the force is usually several times, in the upper and lower teeth desperately to force together, the loose teeth are pushed open a crack, the meat shreds to take advantage of a squeeze, in that settled, you can not pick a hundred. So if you don’t want to eat stuffed teeth, the first thing to do is to prevent periodontal disease, brush your teeth every day carefully, once a year to clean your teeth is essential, to know that once the gums recede can not grow back. If once you have a blocked tooth, please do not use a toothpick to pick, otherwise it will only aggravate the gum damage, it is best to use dental floss. If you look in the mirror and study your teeth, you will find that the upper and lower bite surface is not flat, there are grooves and slopes and quite ups and downs, which makes our teeth sharper, and the food is broken when you bite. At the same time, they have another purpose – the food drainage channel, is to let the food bitten along the “groove” out, do not remain in the teeth near. However, the sharp teeth can not resist the grinding of the teeth over time, the grooves on the surface of the teeth will always be slowly smoothed, especially for children and older people who grind their teeth at night. The biting surface of the teeth becomes flatter and flatter, the teeth become less sharp, and it takes more effort to cut off food. There is a lot more pushing between the upper and lower teeth, and even if your teeth are not loose, a gap is pushed out and food gets shoved in. On the other hand, when the grooves become flat, the food drainage channel is gone, and the chewed stuff is not easily discharged near the gap, so when you bite hard, you press the food into the gap. Therefore, in order to be able to eat with our own teeth when we are old, we have to be more careful, don’t always eat those hard to bite things, less wear and tear to protect the tooth surface, less force can also protect the teeth from loosening. Adults also have tooth decay, the bad is in the gap between the teeth, tooth decay is also a major cause of tooth blockage. Most of the adult caries is in the area between the teeth, a hole between the two teeth is broken, and the food is filled in. This kind of tooth decay is not easy to fill, if the material of filling is not in close contact with the tooth next to it, or the contact area is not good, it will lead to tooth blockage, which is very common. Other dental treatment, such as the inlay is not in good contact with other teeth and so on, can also lead to tooth blockage. If you pull out a tooth, remember not to leave that position empty for too long, otherwise the teeth next to it will slowly grow in this direction, the arrangement becomes sparse and chaotic, and the gap will come out. The wisdom tooth, the scourge of tooth congestion wisdom tooth is one of the easiest teeth to plug, because most people wisdom teeth are not growing correctly, other teeth are growing vertically from the bottom to the top, but wisdom teeth often grow horizontally from the back to the front, so it appears with the front of the tooth between a wedge-shaped groove, eat what is stuffed. In addition, wisdom teeth are often the top has erupted, but the bottom has not yet grown, so the wisdom teeth on top without resistance “crazy growth” up, more and more long. The wisdom tooth that has grown a section is “very obstructive”, so every time you chew, the corresponding lower teeth will push it in a little, and food will take advantage of the opportunity to get into the gap. The harmful effects of dental cavities Many people think that dental cavities are just uncomfortable, but in fact there are many more harmful effects. The most direct, after the plugged teeth will rise pain, right, and over time you do not want to eat with this side of the teeth, and slowly cause a sideways chewing and even eating disorders. The blockage will also make your breath smell bad. The food stuffed into the teeth is not so easy to remove, and over time these food residues will begin to ferment, producing a large number of harmful bacteria and emitting a nasty odor. What’s more, these bacteria will slowly decay the teeth, the root surface of the plugged teeth and the adjacent surface of the two teeth will slowly decay, about half of the plugged teeth will eventually cause tooth decay, and in serious cases, it will also cause pulpitis, periapical infection and so on. The above mentioned periodontal disease will cause tooth blockage, in fact, tooth blockage will also cause periodontal disease, it’s really a time of injustice. When you feel pain when food is stuffed into your teeth, it actually causes mechanical damage to the gums, and can cause minor lacerations in severe cases. Toxins from decaying food can also stimulate inflammation of the gums and bleeding of the teeth, slowly causing the gum recession, alveolar bone resorption and loosening of the teeth that we mentioned above – all of which are manifestations of periodontal disease and eventually lead to the teeth having to be extracted. Many periodontal diseases remain untreated for a long time because the damage is being aggravated every time the teeth are clogged. Many people think that tooth blockage is not a serious disease, but they worry that it is an “incurable disease” and there is nothing to do except flossing. However, Dr. Bisson Fang from the Department of Endodontics of Beijing Stomatological Hospital tells us that all corked teeth can be treated. Some textbooks nowadays also say that there is no cure for some blocked teeth, which is actually a misconception. One of the treatment methods for blocked teeth is filling. If there is a gap between the teeth, no matter it is natural or decayed, it can be filled with special material, just like ordinary filling cavity, it is safe and does not affect the beauty. Another way is to adjust the bite. If the two adjacent teeth don’t seem to have much gap, but they are still blocked, you have to adjust its bite relationship so that when you eat, the upper and lower teeth won’t have a gap between them due to the force of pushing each other. The doctor will use the bite paper to test which of your teeth “bite too hard”, and then the contact point will be slightly polished, sharpened, chewing without too hard to bite; established food drainage channel, will reduce the retention of food in the gap, to relieve dental congestion. If it is a problem with the position of the bite, for example, the tip of one of the upper teeth is just opposite a gap in the lower teeth, often poking food into the gap when eating. This requires blunting the culprit – the “mortar and pestle tip”. The third method is to eliminate the force that pushes between the teeth to push out the gap. Usually 70 to 80 percent of the blocked teeth occur in the last two large teeth. Because the last tooth has no support, the opposite teeth a force will push him in, the gap will come out. This time, just change the groove on the tooth surface, to bite the force of a change of direction, the problem will be solved.