Brush & Floss: Two Ideal Practices for Healthy Teeth

I have nice teeth. Far from Angelina Jolie’s one though – white, well-arranged, fairly strong with a few corrections here and there because who doesn’t have some, right? That’s one of the reasons why I never actually paid too much attention to them. I would’ve brushed them thoroughly only at night before I went to bed and they were perfectly healthy. Until recently that is, when my gums started to bleed and I started noticing these black spots on the roots of my lower teeth. I won’t even go into further details of how bad it was. Naturally, I scheduled an appointment in a dental clinic and the dentist’s reaction was probably my wake-up call.

There was a severe degree of tooth decay in my mouth which caused the accompanying loss of whiteness, the pain and the bleeding. God knows what else was happening in my organism because of this, which meant I had to do some reading. When I asked my dentist what caused this, the answer was very straightforward: a lack of solid brushing and flossing! Shame you ask? More than you can imagine.

So basically, you need a special, soft tooth brush and a tooth paste that’s designed to solve the problem you have. If your gums are bleeding, you need a tooth paste against loose gums, if you want to make them one nuance whiter – a tooth-whitening paste. Next, you need a floss. After every meal you have, your teeth are left filled with leftovers of food. Those leftovers stay there and slowly start to rot, causing irreplaceable damage to your teeth. You don’t always have your tooth brush with you to clean your teeth, and even if you did, a brush alone can’t help you clean your teeth entirely. There are corners you must reach with a floss. Floss after every meal and half of the job is done.

The aftermath of not taking proper care of your teeth is bad, but it can always be solved in a dental clinic in a fast, easy and painless way. Restorative dentistry includes solving problems like broken teeth, rotten teeth and root canal problems, using crowns, bridges and implants to make your teeth fully functional and gorgeous-looking again.

And maybe your damaged tooth or mouth problem won’t cause you any trouble some time, but have no doubts: the monsters are there and they don’t sleep. Problems like periodontitis, which cause plaque to form in the pockets beneath the gums often lead to the development of Helicobacter pylori. Broken teeth often cause heart problems, since they provide a home for bacteria.

In conclusion, wear your dental floss with you all the time and don’t skip on flossing; it’s a simple technique that doesn’t take much of your time and can save you a lot.