Brushing your teeth is the cheapest way of performing dental care. It ‘s a complex task. Space is limited and you don’t see anything.
1) When & How
In the evening is the best. Take your time. From 5 to 20 minutes. It depends on your skill.
Another time during the day of your own choice.
1 +1 daily is the optimal number of times.
Brushing teeth in the morning because of halitosis is useless. Does not solve the problem.
Brushing your teeth 5 times a day is unnecessary.
You “wear out” the gums. You got receding gums.
Teeth become grayer. Polishing a surface affects refraction of light rays. Instead of “lighting”, your smiling device “turns off”.
2) The toothbrush
It must be easy to handle, small, not too hard nor too soft. Otherwise it’ll damage or not clean at all; toothbrush should be held with fingers, not with the palm of your hand, or you can’t see what you are doing;
3) The toothpaste
Doesn’t matter. The important thing is, don’t use any abrasive whitening toothpast. Chemistry doesn’t keep plaque at bay. Brushing works. Toothpaste only facilitates the cleaning;
4) How you do it
We always start from the same point of the mouth and follow the same pattern:
“Upper jaw left – center – upper right;
lower jaw right – center – lower left “;
it is hard for even the most absent-minded to forget some teeth or vice versa always insist on it;
5) The technique
From the gum towards the tooth, with a “rumble of brush”, vibrating and trying to force bristles inbetween the interdental spaces; is a complex task and represents the sum of different movements: rolling, vibrating and pushing.
Add a slight horizontal and vertical brush, externally and internally to your teeth.
Then you stop, the deadlift.
Now repeat same sequence a step forward.
In the anterior region, especially if you have a small mouth opening, the brush has to be used in a vertical way.
Link: ” The swinging toothbrush “
6) What intensity
Depends on gums health.
A diseased gingiva is inflamed. An inflamed gum is swollen, delicate and easy bleeding. It got sick because of dirt. If there is dirt, you have to clean teeth. Healthy gums do not bleed. Don’t keep yourself from brushing because of bleeding.
Over brushing or brushing harder does not get rid of the guilt for lack of flossing. That is a guilt about 80% of the population will have to find another absolution for.
7) Electric Toothbrush
If you fail by hand, you get an electric toothbrush. It recalls the same technique of the manual one. “At your fingertips,” and with the right force. The toothbrush, works on its own. It “rumbles and swings” with diligence. We just have to place it on the teeth, with the right force. Obviously trying to follow the right pattern. And giving him time to carry out his duties.
8) The interdental brush
Interdental spaces are the starting point of our dental woes. You need the interdental brush to clean these “ravines”. It must be the right size. If it is too small does not clean. If it is too large, you don’t get it through. It shrinks on itself. You’re hurting the gum.
The tip must be bent depending on the area of use. In the front region, you use it straight. In posterior areas, lingual or palatal, you have to bend the tip. If not, you can not find the passage. Do not try to look in the mirror. You have to try the hole, the interdental space, get the feeling of it. You can not see. It’s a matter of dexterity.
9) The floss
It is no second option to the interdental brush. It cleans the adjacent tooth’s surfaces and tight interdental spaces. Especially in case of crowded teeth. The floss often breaks and does not come through. Perhaps you should get orthodontics.
10) Mouthwash
Mouthwashes do not cure bleeding gums, are only temporary reliefes. You got more stained teeth (Listerine). Is like a fee to be paid to Big Pharma. As long as there is plaque, dirt, especially in the interdental spaces, in “pockets”, gum keeps bleeding and hurting. Mouthwashes have only to be used when you can not brush your teeth after an injury or after oral surgery.
And remember: 1 +1 time a day.
“Perfect is enemy of good”.
Let’s work it out.
dr. Massimo Mazza
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