Are you suffering from toothache, periodontitis and other diseases in today’s happy days? Healthy teeth are good for overall health and longevity. Having white and healthy teeth has become our common goal. The World Health Organization defines “oral health standard” as clean teeth, no cavity, no pain, normal gum color and no bleeding. However, according to statistics, the incidence of adult dental caries in China is as high as 97%. Therefore, it is especially urgent and necessary to popularize the knowledge of oral health. To achieve the above standard, the following matters should be noted
1.Regular dental cleaning
With the improvement of living standard, adults should develop the concept of regular dental cleaning. Women should have their teeth scaled once a year, and men should have their teeth scaled twice a year on average, especially those with more tartar and subgingival tartar should have their teeth scaled regularly, because the long-term pressure of subgingival tartar on the gums will lead to a great increase in the prevalence of gum recession and periodontitis. Scaling, also known as dental scaling, is a means of treating dental disease and a health care method for dental care.
Scaling is the removal of supragingival tartar and subgingival tartar by ultrasonic vibration, while tooth surface pigment and plaque can only be completely removed by sandblasting, so it is best to scaling and sandblasting at the same time, which is like rinsing your beloved teeth with a high-pressure water gun, non-invasive and very safe. Scaling may bleed, so the sterilization of oral instruments is very important. In addition to using disposable equipment, sterilization of one person and one machine is necessary.
Diseases transmitted through blood, such as hepatitis B and AIDS, should be strictly prevented during the scaling process. At the same time, patients undergoing oral treatment should preferably have been vaccinated against hepatitis B and have produced surface antibodies to hepatitis B.
2, teeth also need cosmetic
Yellow teeth and black teeth can make people “ashamed to say”, and the original charming smile will become dull, and some people will lose confidence in themselves. The yellow teeth of men who smoke can be restored to their “heroic color” by scaling, but for people with tetracycline teeth, even scaling will not change the yellow and black teeth, and cosmetic dental treatment is necessary. The beauty of tetracycline teeth at present mainly have porcelain veneer restoration method (i.e. porcelain teeth), drug decolorization, etc..
Drug decolorization is the use of high concentration of hydrogen peroxide with physical therapy heating method, every other day treatment once, 7 times for a course of treatment, the lighter a course of treatment can make the teeth close to normal color, the heavier 1 to 2 courses can also achieve good results. Porcelain veneer restoration method can guarantee 10-20 years effect, but the disadvantage is the need to uniformly grind away a certain amount of dental tissue, and the cost is relatively high.
3, brushing the teeth need “three three system”
It is important to develop a scientific habit of caring for your teeth. If you brush your teeth, you need to brush your teeth for 3 minutes after eating 3 meals a day. It is best to apply high-pressure water rinser (water picker) steep bottom rinse off the food residue in the teeth, should not often apply hard toothpicks to remove the scum between the teeth.
Of course, it is best to brush your teeth every morning and evening and after three meals. If you think it is too much trouble, you must rinse your mouth after meals, or at least keep brushing your teeth in the morning and evening. Brush your teeth in the direction of tooth growth up and down, rather than pulling back and forth with force, so as not to damage the gums and reduce the chance of brushing food debris into the teeth.
It is worth reminding that brushing should be done within 3 minutes after eating to avoid the deposition of bacteria on the surface of teeth and to prevent tooth decay. Clean your mouth with water, salt water or tea at other times. The head of the toothbrush should be small, the bristles should be soft, and the brushing should be light, and the teeth should not be rubbed hard as if they were the floor.
Toothpaste should also be changed frequently, because people who like to use drug toothpaste use one of them for a long time, the flora in the mouth will lose balance and produce drug resistance, and it is also easy to cause caries.
4.Concerned about children in tooth replacement period
Under normal circumstances, children start to change teeth from about 6 years old, and the milk teeth start to fall off physiologically, and the permanent teeth which replace the milk teeth will erupt one after another, and all the milk teeth will be replaced by permanent teeth when they are about 12 years old.
During the period of tooth replacement between the ages of 6 and 12, it is very important to protect teeth and parents must pay special attention. When the child’s first permanent tooth erupts, he/she should go to the professional dentistry department for the sulcus closure clinic to prevent dental caries, and it is better for all the children before 12 years old to have the sulcus closure clinic. During the period of tooth replacement from 6 to 12 years old, parents should pay close attention to each tooth of their children, pay attention to tooth alignment and timely orthodontic treatment to ensure the function and beauty of teeth.
After the age of 18, some people may have one to four wisdom teeth, while others may not have wisdom teeth for the rest of their lives. There are three types of wisdom teeth: vertically positioned, inclined and horizontally positioned. The wisdom teeth in the wrong position (inclined and horizontal) will affect the growth and development of the front teeth and must be removed at the right time; even for the vertical wisdom teeth, the periodontal pockets are prone to accumulate food debris and bacteria, if not cleaned enough, wisdom teeth may often interfere with your life and work, so wisdom teeth should not be ignored and should be consulted with a dental professional.
5, prevention and treatment of periodontal disease
Prevention and treatment of periodontal disease, we must do regular oral examination. There are some traditional understanding often delay the disease. People often say “old tooth loss″, thinking that when you get older, you will naturally lose teeth, which is wrong. As long as you pay attention to periodontal care, teeth are not easy to lose. Some people classify swollen and painful gums as “fire”, so they eat some herbal tea and anti-inflammatory drugs and that’s it. This will ease the symptoms, but without regular periodontal treatment, it will only make the periodontal disease more serious in the end.
The main danger of periodontal disease is that it causes bleeding gums, pus, bad breath, and eventually loose and lost teeth. It not only affects our eating and causes digestive system diseases, but some studies have shown that periodontal disease is closely related to systemic diseases such as diabetes and respiratory system diseases. The main manifestations of periodontal disease are: bleeding gums when brushing or biting, calculus in the neck of teeth, loose teeth, weakness in biting, exposed roots, bad breath, etc. Once found to have periodontal disease, should be timely diagnosis and treatment.
6, people’s misunderstanding of orthodontics
People on the orthodontic awareness of the following three misconceptions: First, that young children’s milk teeth do not need to be corrected; second, the period of tooth replacement can not be corrected; third, older can not be corrected. These 3 views are wrong and harmful. There is no age limit for orthodontics. Research shows that the alveolar bone can be changed throughout life, as long as the periodontal health, the alveolar bone is normal, the movement of teeth change is not a problem. At present, it is very common for people in their thirties and forties to have their teeth straightened in economically developed areas.
(1) Dental disease should be prevented from childhood, how to prevent and treat dental disease in children and adolescents ?
The incidence of dental disease in teenage children is quite high because of their poor hygiene habits and their fondness for sugar and sweets. Some people think that children’s milk teeth are to be replaced and it is okay if they rot. In fact, the replacement of milk teeth is age-specific, and if the rotten teeth are not treated for a long time, it will affect their feeding and even their physical and mental health.
If children must be set aside because of decay or other reasons, and the normal replacement teeth cannot erupt in a short time, they should be set with missing teeth or make gap maintainers to maintain children’s pronunciation and chewing function, and also to avoid children’s dental development malformation as much as possible. When children are about 6 years old and their sixth-age teeth start to erupt, they should go to the hospital to make sockets for the newly erupted permanent molars in order to protect the newly erupted permanent teeth.
(2) Misconceptions of dental care for the elderly
After people enter middle age, there are two kinds of illnesses that are most likely and obvious: one is hair, and the other is teeth. Hair in people, when young to set off the youth; and when you step into the “life” of the year, it will make you “old”, so it is in addition to decorate the appearance and conduct heat, almost no practical function. Teeth are not, the older a person is, the more teeth need to be strong and healthy. However, in real life, there are some misconceptions that confuse elderly people.
a. Loose teeth of the elderly is a natural phenomenon, prevention is useless, treatment is also useless
A large number of facts have proved that most elderly people’s loose teeth are caused by “periodontal disease”, “root surface caries”, osteoporosis and other diseases, as long as these diseases are prevented and treated, elderly people with high life can still keep a mouthful of healthy teeth, at least the loss of At least the years of tooth loss will be delayed.
b. Human teeth are the same as rat teeth, the more they are worn, the stronger they are, it doesn’t matter if they gnaw on something hard
The teeth of a rodent are very different from those of a mouse. The teeth of a rodent grow too fast, and if it does not grind them short and let them grow indefinitely, it will not be able to eat and will be starved to death; but people are different;
Enamel destruction, deep dentin exposure, pulp nerve endings lose protection, not only easy to cause dentin hypersensitivity, but also cause dental caries and other serious dental disease; teeth wear serious, not only will cause teeth forward displacement or face shape change, showing old, but also cause the temporomandibular joint next to the ear due to long-term improper bite and cause pain. Therefore, the teeth of the elderly should especially avoid wear and tear. Do not chew betel nut, gnaw sugar cane, hazelnut, melon seeds, eat fried peanuts, not to use teeth as pliers, open bottle caps with teeth, pulling needles and nails, etc.; even toothbrush bristles should not be too hard to prevent tooth wear.
c. Rinsing without brushing
Some elderly people are not used to brushing their teeth, especially in rural areas. They say that their ancestors have been like this for generations, as long as they rinse their mouths after meals, why use a brush to dig. There is even a fallacy that “the more you floss, the thinner your teeth are, and the more you brush, the more brittle they are”, so they have never been able to accept modern oral hygiene habits. In fact, rinsing is not a substitute for brushing. Proper brushing has both the mechanical scrubbing effect of toothbrush and the chemical decontamination and sterilization effect of toothpaste. It can effectively prevent the formation of plaque and tartar. Therefore, the elderly should develop the habit of brushing their teeth.
d. As long as you insist on brushing your teeth, there is no need to “clean” your teeth
Brushing is not a complete substitute for scaling, because the various foods eaten leave traces on the tooth surface and form plaque by the action of bacteria, which is difficult to remove by brushing every morning and evening, not to mention that it is difficult to brush everything, and over time, tartar, pigment and other stubborn tartar is formed. The medical term “scaling” is called “scaling”, which is a modern physical and chemical method used by dentists to remove bacteria, tartar, pigment and other tartar from the tooth surface; scaling is a highly specialized technical work that requires strict training to be competent.
In the dental hospital medical staff using manual instruments to scaling, it takes 3 to 4 hours or more, is the use of ultrasonic scaling machine scaling, also need more than 1 hour. If you take a look at the tartar that is removed by scaling, you will believe that brushing is not possible in any way. In developed countries, scaling has become a very popular routine oral health care, people should go to the dentist for scaling regularly 1 to 2 times a year.
e. lose one or two teeth, no need to rush to fill, and so on to lose the net for a full mouth dentures to save trouble
Some people think that, when you get older, missing a few teeth is a normal thing. The missing teeth do not want to set dentures, afraid of the trouble, spend a lot of money, missing let it be vacant. This has many harmful effects: it will significantly reduce chewing ability, affecting digestion and nutrient absorption; it will accelerate the loosening and loss of adjacent teeth; it will also affect language and appearance. The dentures can help you eliminate defects, restore tooth function, and stabilize adjacent teeth.
f. Smoking, drinking tea deposited yellow teeth black teeth, can no longer white
In fact, not, the current cosmetic dentistry has reached a considerable level, through cleaning, bleaching and light-curing restoration, you can return a mouthful of white teeth. Smoking, tea, coffee, etc. form staining stains is the tooth surface discoloration, easy to get rid of, even tetracycline teeth and other tooth discoloration there are ways to change it. It can be bleached with chemicals such as hydrogen peroxide, or cleaned with ultrasonic scaling machine, or covered with light-curing composite resin, etc.
For teeth discolored after necrosis, internal bleaching can be used by extracting the pulp, putting a drug inside the tooth, sealing it, and changing it after a few days. The tooth will become white after about 5 to 6 times. If you have laser teeth cleaning machine, the effect of whitening teeth is more ideal. In fact, teeth whitening is not only for aesthetic purposes, but also an important measure for dental health care and dental disease prevention and control. Especially for the elderly, changing a mouthful of white teeth will have the psychological effect of enhancing the belief in life with the feeling of youthful reappearance and plum blossoming.
g. Large hospitals ask for more money, scaling nearly a hundred, filling a hole dozens of dollars; small clinics pull a tooth only a few dollars, scaling is also cheap
It is true that the price of the same item is different. However, how much difference is there between them in terms of treatment technology, operation level and material quality? Let’s talk about scaling, it takes 1 to 2 hours to scaling in a dental hospital, while someone scaling in a dental clinic or beauty salon, it only takes 10 minutes. Only the visible tartar is removed, leaving behind the most pathogenic deep tartar; the exposed roots cannot be dealt with in time, resulting in pain and aggravating the condition of periodontal disease;
Some also cause bleeding in patients with bleeding disorders and cross-infection of infectious diseases. Besides, some dental clinics advertise “teeth whitening, 5 minutes”; in fact, they use hydrochloric acid, sodium sulfate and other liquids to corrode the calcium of the teeth, which works fast but hurts the hard tissues of the teeth a lot, and once the whitening encounters tea, coffee and other colored liquids, they are quickly colored. Therefore, do not be greedy for cheap and suffer adverse consequences.
h. Chewing can enhance the memory of the elderly
Japanese researchers found that chewing can effectively prevent memory loss problems in older people, and a good set of dentures can make older people avoid suffering from progeria. The latest things a person remembers first simply exist in the hippocampus tissue of the brain, a key part of the human learning process.
Research has found that chewing is the most fundamental way for older people to maintain a good memory. Researchers’ analysis of brain activity in people who were chewing showed that chewing increased the activity of signals in the hippocampal tissue. The reason why chewing improves memory is that people often relieve themselves by chewing things when they are stressed, and hippocampal tissue controls the level of stress hormones in the blood, so if older people chew less, the hormone in their bodies is quite high enough to cause their short-term memory to fail.