The dream of a healthy smile rests on proper dental care. Which begins with the debunking of myths. Let's Consider 7 myths about dental health.
1. If the teeth do not hurt, they do not need to be treated. We pull with a trip to the dentist until the last - until it starts to hurt unbearably. But teeth do not go bad in one day. Therefore, if you want to keep a bad tooth, visit a doctor at least a couple of times a year.
2. Brush your teeth enough once a day. With good constancy, we step into the bathroom in the morning to freshen our breath and cheer ourselves up. However, in the evening, tired, we are often lazy to follow the rules of hygiene. For healthy and beautiful teeth, it is strongly recommended that you brush your teeth for at least 3 minutes in the morning and evening.
3. I got good teeth from my grandmother. If your grandmother never turned to the dentist for 95 years of her life, this does not mean that you need to forget the way to the doctor and not care about your teeth at all. Even with gorgeous heredity, any genetic abnormality can lead to disaster in the oral cavity.
4. Eat a lot of sweets - tooth ache. We were scared from childhood: sweets spoil our teeth. However, it was proved that not the amount of sweets spoils the tooth enamel, but the time of chewing them. Therefore, it is much more beneficial to eat a cake or candy in 3 minutes than to suck a lollipop three times longer: the acid secreted by sweets causes tooth decay.
5. A tooth without a nerve will live longer. We think that if you remove the nerve from the tooth, it is not afraid of anything. Probably the stereotype has developed because without a nerve the tooth does not hurt; but it doesn't mean that it doesn't deteriorate, rather, quite the contrary. No wonder dentists are trying to the last to save the nerve, prolonging the life of the tooth.
6. If I remove the tartar, I will spoil my teeth faster. Yes, the removal of the stone is not the most pleasant thing, apparently, from here and in the myth the legs grow. But with current technologies, this procedure is absolutely harmless and, as far as possible, comfortable. And the presence of stone, on the contrary, loosens the teeth and causes diseases of the teeth and gums.
7. Milk teeth do not require special care. Extremely erroneous stereotype. After all, if you do not follow your child's teeth, they may fall out randomly and much earlier than they should. This can lead to the formation of empty spaces in the oral cavity. And such is the nature of the growing tooth - it reaches out to the void, growing crooked. Doctors recommend up to three years old brushing your baby's teeth with fluoride-free toothpaste.
