Maintaining proper oral health is important. There are some common ways to keep your mouth healthy, such as visiting the dentist, flossing, and brushing your teeth regularly. Here are some extra precautions you can take to prevent oral and dental diseases.
Protecting your teeth is hugely important to keeping your smile looking pretty. Certain activities and participating in contact sports puts your mouth at risk for injury that can contribute to dental diseases. Mouth guards protect teeth from getting knocked out and from teeth breaking.
Mouth guards are also helpful to patients who grind their teeth at night. Bruxism is common and many people do not even know they grind their teeth. Signs may include waking up with a headache, face pain, and fatigue. While it may seem insignificant, grinding teeth can cause broken teeth, loss of tooth enamel, and potentially overtime, loss of teeth.
A healthy diet with plenty of calcium and vitamin D and other necessary nutrients is important to bone health and strong teeth. Eating the proper amount of dairy, calcium-fortified foods, and green vegetables is sufficient for children and young adults. Food like broccoli, kale, milk, and orange juice are healthy ways to get the proper amounts of calcium.
Avoiding carbohydrates, candy, and sticky foods can stick on the teeth and remain on the surface of the tooth, unless you brush your teeth soon after eating. The complex sugars in carbohydrates turn into bacteria that lives in the mouth, and when mixed with saliva, it turns into acid which eats at the teeth.
Limiting sugary drinks like soda is important to protecting teeth and preventing oral and dental diseases. The acid in soda eats away at the enamel and can create cavities. It also leaves stains on the surface of the tooth that can erode the structure of the teeth. Cavities can cause long-term dental damage if they go untreated.
Seeing a dentist regularly for cleanings is important to your overall oral health. Taking certain precautions like having X-Rays performed at routine cleanings can monitor your oral health and check for early signs of decay.
Getting your teeth professionally cleaned can also help prevent gum disease and inflammation and bleeding by removing built up plaque. Your dentist may use fluoride treatments and sealant to help your teeth fight tooth decay.
Proper Brushing Techniques
While it is important to brush your teeth, improper brushing can do damage to your teeth. Over brushing can damage the tooth enamel and if you brush for longer than 4 minutes total each day, you run the risk of wearing down the enamel and exposing the dentin (the inside layer of teeth).
Brush your teeth like you are polishing an eggshell – gently and carefully. If your toothbrush gets flattened after brushing, you are brushing too hard. Flossing your teeth with each brushing helps remove any debris or food stuck in between your teeth.
Brushing at least twice a day with a fluoridated toothpaste, before and after bed is a great way to help prevent any oral issues and dental diseases.
Ni muhimu kudumisha afya nzuri ya mdomo. Kuna njia kadhaa za kawaida za kudumisha afya ya mdomo wako, kama vile kumtembelea daktari wa meno, kutumia kitambaa cha meno, na kupiga mswaki meno yako kwa ukawaida. Hapa kuna tahadhari za ziada unazoweza kuchukua ili kuzuia magonjwa ya mdomo na meno. Kuhifadhi meno yako ni muhimu sana ili kuhifadhi tabasamu yako nzuri. Kuendesha michezo ya kuwasiliana na wengine kunaweza kusababisha madhara ya meno. Vifuniko vya mdomo huwalinda meno yasivunjike na yasivunjike. Walinzi wa mdomo pia husaidia wagonjwa wanaokemea meno yao usiku. Bruxism ni ya kawaida na watu wengi hata hawajui kwamba wao grind meno yao. Dalili zaweza kutia ndani kuamka ukiwa na maumivu ya kichwa, maumivu ya uso, na uchovu. Ingawa huenda ikaonekana kuwa jambo dogo, kusaga meno kunaweza kusababisha meno kuvunjika, kupoteza enamel ya meno, na huenda ikawa vigumu kupata meno. Chakula chenye lishe na kiasi kikubwa cha kalsiamu na vitamini D na virutubisho vingine muhimu ni muhimu kwa afya ya mifupa na meno yenye nguvu. Kula kiasi cha kutosha cha maziwa, vyakula vilivyoongezwa kalsiamu, na mboga za kijani ni cha kutosha kwa watoto na watu wazima wachanga. Chakula kama broccoli, kale, maziwa, na maji ya machungwa ni njia nzuri za kupata kiasi cha kutosha cha kalsiamu. Kuepuka wanga, peremende, na vyakula vyenye kunata vinaweza kushikamana na meno na kubaki kwenye uso wa jino, isipokuwa ukisafisha meno yako muda mfupi baada ya kula. Sukari ngumu katika wanga hubadilika kuwa bakteria ambayo huishi kinywani, na inapochanganywa na mate, inageuka kuwa asidi ambayo hula meno. Kupunguza kunywa vinywaji vyenye sukari kama vile soda ni muhimu kwa kulinda meno na kuzuia magonjwa ya mdomo na meno. Asidi iliyo katika soda huharibu enamel na inaweza kutokeza mashimo. Pia, hutia doa kwenye uso wa meno ambayo inaweza kuharibu muundo wa meno. Matatizo ya meno yanaweza kusababisha uharibifu wa meno kwa muda mrefu yasipotibiwa. Kuwatembelea madaktari wa meno mara kwa mara kwa ajili ya usafi ni muhimu kwa afya yako ya mdomo kwa ujumla. Kuchukua tahadhari fulani kama vile kufanya X-Ray wakati wa kusafisha kawaida kunaweza kufuatilia afya yako ya mdomo na kuangalia ishara za mapema za kuoza. Kusafisha meno yako kwa njia ya kitaalamu pia kunaweza kusaidia kuzuia magonjwa ya taya na uvimbe na kutokwa na damu kwa kuondoa plaque iliyojengwa. Daktari wako wa meno anaweza kutumia matibabu ya fluoride na sealant kusaidia meno yako kupambana na kuoza kwa meno. Upasuaji wa meno: Ingawa ni muhimu kusafisha meno yako, kusafisha meno kwa njia isiyofaa kunaweza kuharibu meno yako. Kuosha meno kwa kupita kiasi kunaweza kuharibu enamel ya meno na ikiwa unafyonza kwa muda mrefu kuliko dakika nne kwa siku, una hatari ya kuharibu enamel na kufunua dentin (safu ya ndani ya meno). Futa meno yako kama unavyopaka rangi ganda la yai <unk> kwa upole na kwa uangalifu. Ikiwa mswaki wako wa meno unapatika baada ya kuosha, unasafisha kwa nguvu sana. Kutumia floss kila wakati unaposafisha meno yako, huondoa uchafu au chakula kilichokuwa kati ya meno yako. Kuosha meno mara mbili kwa siku kwa kutumia dawa ya meno yenye fluoridi kabla na baada ya kulala ni njia nzuri ya kuzuia matatizo ya mdomo na magonjwa ya meno.