Problem description:
Is there a scientific basis?
Analysis:
You should rinse your mouth after meals, not brush your teeth.
Some people advocate brushing your teeth immediately after meals, which can eliminate food between your teeth in time and help protect your teeth. In fact, this practice is not scientific enough.
Because when people eat, especially when eating acidic food or drinking fruit juice, the enamel on the surface of teeth will become loose. If you brush your teeth immediately after meals, the enamel on your teeth will be damaged.
Therefore, it is not advisable to brush your teeth immediately after meals. The correct way is to rinse your mouth after meals and remove food residues from your mouth. If possible, brush your teeth after meals 1 hour. For teenagers who are not easy to plug their teeth, rinse their mouths after meals. Middle-aged and elderly people, especially the elderly, have the need to brush their teeth after meals. Because their teeth are badly blocked, they need to be extracted, and their teeth can't be completely extracted. Moreover, the elderly have this condition. After meals, they rinse their mouths first, then pick their teeth, and finally brush their teeth.
Gargling after meals is a good habit to keep your mouth healthy. It is best to rinse your mouth with warm water. If the mouthwash is too hot, or rinse your mouth with hot water immediately after eating cold food, it is easy to cause tooth bleeding. Gargle your mouth too cold, or rinse your mouth with cold water immediately after eating cooked food, which will cause tooth nerve spasm. Over time, the health, longevity and chewing function of teeth will be affected. Rinse your mouth correctly. The steps are: first, drink a big mouthful of water and shut up; Bump your cheeks and let the water fully contact your teeth, gums and oral mucosa. At the same time, the impact force of water is used to repeatedly impact the whole oral cavity, and then it is spit out later, so that food residues stored in various parts of teeth, gaps between teeth, labial and buccal grooves, etc. are removed. Repeated several times can greatly reduce the number of bacteria and food residues in the mouth.