With the growth of age, our teeth will have some minor problems more or less. Have you found out recently that you can't eat anything too sour? Did you like it before? Now as long as you eat something sour, your teeth will be soft. In order to have a healthy tooth when we are old, you should pay attention to protecting your tooth health from now on.
First, how to protect dental health in daily life
1, brush your teeth in the morning and evening
In order to protect our teeth, first of all, we should keep our mouth and teeth clean. Then brushing your teeth in the morning and evening is necessary. Pay special attention to brushing your teeth, especially at night. Because the food residue of the day is not cleaned up, when you sleep at night, your mouth will not move, saliva will not be secreted, and your mouth will not be well protected. The next day, you will find that our mouths will stink, which is why we don't brush our teeth. Secondly, we should pay attention to the correct way of brushing teeth, give consideration to both inside and outside, ensure the time of brushing teeth, and keep the oral cavity clean for about 5 minutes.
Step 2 drink plenty of water
Drinking plenty of water can not only ensure the normal water supply to the human body, but also clean the mouth and teeth well. Kill two birds with one stone. Especially it is necessary to drink some water after meals and keep your mouth and teeth clean. But be careful not to drink too much water after meals. Drinking too much will dilute the digestive juice and lead to indigestion, which is not good.
Step 3 eat less sweets
Eating less sweets is obviously to prevent tooth decay. My brother is used to eating sweets and snacks since he was a child, and he especially likes sweets, which is not good. I didn't know about tooth decay until I found my toothache. It's too late to regret it now. If you also like sweets, you must be careful not to eat them, brush your teeth as much as possible, keep your teeth clean and reduce the residue of sweets.
4. Use toothpicks as little as possible
Toothpick, why should I mention this? Many of us have such a habit that we like to pick a toothpick, plug our teeth and pat our stomachs after dinner. It feels very imposing. I think if you really eat meat or something embedded in your teeth, otherwise try not to use toothpicks to bring you the pleasure of eating every day. In this way, over time, you will find that your teeth will get bigger and bigger. By the time you find out, it will be too late. The bigger the teeth, the easier it is to embed food. At this time, toothpicks are indispensable. Therefore, use toothpicks as little as possible.
5. Drink less drinks
Don't drink too much carbonated drinks, especially carbonated drinks. In fact, this is not only bad for our teeth, but also bad for our health if we drink too much. If you like to drink, you must pay attention to the amount and try to choose less carbonated. Because the acidity of carbonic acid will corrode the protective layer that protects gums.
6. Eat more fruits and vegetables
Vegetables and fruits remind us to eat more every day, but we always feel that we don't eat much. After all, it's not as delicious as all kinds of meat. Now we never worry that eating meat will lead to a relatively small intake of various vitamins in the body. Therefore, I also want to say that it is very beneficial to eat as many fruits and vegetables as possible, which is not only very beneficial to our health, but also rich vitamins in fruits and vegetables can prevent gum bleeding or tooth inflammation. So, in order to protect your teeth, eat more vegetables.
Second, what to eat to protect your teeth?
1, tea
The fluorine contained in tea can be combined with apatite tuberculosis in teeth, which has the functions of acid resistance and tooth decay prevention. Among them, oolong tea and green tea have the highest fluorine content. Polyphenol contained in it is a complex composed of more than 30 substances, which has the efficacy of disinfection and sterilization, can reduce Streptococcus mutans causing tooth decay in the oral cavity, and has the effect of strengthening teeth. Drinking tea regularly can increase the flow of water and liquid in the mouth and maintain oral hygiene. Sugar, pectin and other ingredients in tea react with saliva to moisten the mouth and enhance the self-cleaning ability of the mouth. Chewing tea can also cure gum bleeding. However, it should be noted that when chewing, you should chew slowly and let the tea be ground and chewed into fine powder in your mouth before swallowing saliva.
2. onions (surname)
Onions, especially fresh raw onions, can kill many kinds of bacteria, including Streptococcus mutans, which causes our tooth decay.
Step 3: mushrooms
Lentinan contained in Lentinus edodes can inhibit the bacteria in the mouth from producing dental plaque.
4. mustard
Mustard contains some ingredients, which can inhibit the reproduction of Streptococcus mutans and lead to tooth decay.
5.celery
Coarse fiber food can sweep away food residue from some teeth. In addition, hard chewing can stimulate saliva secretion, balance the pH in the mouth, and achieve natural antibacterial effect. Besides celery, sliced cucumbers and carrots can also massage the gums.
Step 6 drink water
This is the simplest but most important way to protect teeth. Moderate drinking water can make our gums moist and stimulate powdered saliva. Drinking some water after a meal can take away the food residue in the residual mouth and prevent the bacteria that damage the teeth from getting nutrition.
7.sugar-free chewing gum
Chewing sugar-free chewing gum containing xylitol has obvious effect on inhibiting bacteria causing dental caries.
Third, the small habit of protecting dental health.
1, chew
Chewing foods with appropriate hardness, elasticity and high cellulose content, such as coarse grains, miscellaneous grains, vegetables, fruits, etc., can exercise the chewing ability of oral muscles and teeth, and make the tooth tissue tough and firm and not easy to loosen. Chewing food fully when eating can massage the gums, scrub the tooth surface and bounce up the periodontal ligament, which has the functions of accelerating blood circulation, improving local nutrition and promoting tooth health.
Step 2 massage your gums
Sticking teeth for 5 minutes every day can promote blood circulation and tissue metabolism, exercise muscles and protect skin, promote saliva secretion and clean mouth, and achieve the purpose of strengthening teeth and exercising periodontal function. If the teeth are slightly loose, you can massage your gums with your index finger for 10 minutes every morning. You can also roll the nucleus up and down in your mouth and massage your gums when talking about plums or apricots, which is of great benefit to preventing periodontitis and strengthening your teeth.
Don't brush your teeth immediately after meals.
Many people have the habit of brushing their teeth immediately after meals, thinking that this can minimize the chance of dental diseases. However, recent research shows that brushing your teeth immediately after meals is harmful to your teeth health. This is because there is a layer of enamel on the surface of the crown, which will soften after eating, especially after eating acidic food. Brushing your teeth at this time will cause enamel damage. Therefore, it is best to rinse your mouth with clean water after meals, and brush your teeth after 1-2 hours.
4. Don't smoke
Non-smoking is good for protecting teeth. Smoking not only darkens teeth, but also damages alveolar bone. Some data show that the alveolar bone injury of smokers is more than that of non-smokers, and the injury develops rapidly and seriously.
Step 5 keep in a good mood
A good mood is good for dental health. Mental stimulation such as nervousness, anxiety and fear can cause toothache, which is called psychogenic toothache in medicine.
6. Keep exercising.
Insist on jogging, walking and other sports, and often take part in some physical labor within your power to keep healthy, which can delay the atrophy of periodontal tissue, improve the resistance of teeth and make them strong.
7. Patients with diseases should brush their teeth carefully.
Patients with chronic lung disease must be more careful when brushing and cleaning their teeth. If oral care is improper, bacteria will accumulate in the mouth. These bacteria, which should be attached to teeth, will enter human saliva, increasing the possibility of severe lower respiratory tract infection in people with poor immunity.
4. What are the taboos for protecting dental health?
1, cigarettes
Nicotine in cigarettes will weaken the rehabilitation ability of oral tissues, reduce the body's resistance and cause periodontal disease.
2. High acid food
Always drink high-acid foods, such as juice, healthy drinks, soft drinks, yogurt, red wine and white wine. It will make the enamel on the outer layer of teeth be eroded by acid, expose ivory and make dentine hypersensitivity sting.
3. Eat too close
Eating too much can easily lead to tooth decay. This is because after each meal, dental plaque in the mouth will metabolize sugar or starch in food to produce acid, which will lead to the loss of minerals on the tooth surface. Although saliva can neutralize acid, it takes some time. If you eat too much, the acid in your mouth will continue to be produced, and saliva will not be able to neutralize the transition acid.
4, tooth extraction
(1) No tooth extraction during menstruation. The blood coagulation function decreases during menstrual period, and there may be massive bleeding after tooth extraction. During menstruation, women's nociceptive nerves are more sensitive and generally have poor resistance. After tooth extraction, the wound is easy to be infected.
(2) You can't extract teeth in the first three months and the last three months of pregnancy. Tooth extraction in early pregnancy is easy to induce abortion, and tooth extraction in late pregnancy is easy to produce premature delivery. It is estimated that 80% pregnant women have dental complications, such as toothache and bleeding gums. Therefore, dental diseases should be treated before pregnancy or during the third to sixth month of pregnancy.
(3) Women with gynecological diseases should protect their teeth in time. Women's gums are one of the functional organs of estrogen. Women with gynecological diseases often have endocrine disorders, and the bacteria in their mouths are 3% to 5% higher than normal women, which is easy to cause inflammation. Therefore, patients with gynecological diseases should pay more attention to maintaining oral hygiene than ordinary people.
(4) You can't pull out your teeth when taking birth control pills. Contraceptives reduce the local anti-infection ability of oral cavity. If the impacted teeth are removed after taking birth control pills, more than 50% people will have wound infection.
5.chewing gum
Chewing gum often destroys the substances people use to fill their teeth and releases amalgam, which is harmful to the brain, central nervous system and kidneys, and even leads to death in severe cases. People who have filled their teeth should not chew gum often.
6. Delicious food
Eating hard foods, such as bones and hard shell foods, will increase the possibility of tooth cracking.