1, periodontitis
Yes, periodontitis again! Periodontitis is the most common cause of food impaction in adults.
Periodontitis often leads to varying degrees of loosening and shifting of teeth, and gaps between teeth that were originally tightly aligned, making it easy for food debris to nestle in. In addition, after periodontitis is controlled, the inflammation of the gums is eliminated, but it is often accompanied by recession of the gums, which exposes the gap originally covered by the gums, and can also easily lead to food congestion.
2, tooth wear
The teeth cut and grind food day after day, which can cause physiological tooth loss. Under normal circumstances it is not easy to make gaps between teeth. However, if excessive wear occurs on the crowns of the teeth, it can also easily cause food impaction.
3, missing teeth
The teeth are missing, and do not do dentures to let them grow on their own, especially the original and the missing teeth relative to the occlusion of the teeth, the loss of occlusal resistance, often stretching out, and the teeth on both sides of the missing teeth will be shifted, it is more likely to be plugged teeth.
4, tooth decay
Tooth decay, especially the development of a certain degree of tooth decay, teeth will appear wormholes, these "holes" is the high incidence of plugging the teeth of the high incidence of the area, but to remove these embedded foreign matter is not so convenient. If a cavity occurs on the neighboring side of a tooth, it can create a gap between the two teeth, making it easier to eat with a clogged tooth.
5, blocked wisdom teeth
Wisdom teeth, if they do not grow out or grow right, are not easy to cause congestion. However, it is often the case that wisdom teeth do not erupt smoothly, and the end result is that food debris is more likely to stay between the wisdom teeth and the large teeth in front of them. In addition, even if the wisdom teeth are not crooked, due to the position of too far back, not a good daily cleaning, the probability of tooth decay is also very high, and over time it will be easy to plug the teeth.
6, teeth are not aligned
This situation is called dental misalignment, teeth are not aligned, such as misaligned teeth, twisted, naturally easier and more convenient to let the food stuck in these places, resulting in congestion.
7, picking teeth harm
The harm of picking teeth with a toothpick is at least three:
1. easy to cause inflammation of the gums picking teeth, sharp toothpicks are very easy to hurt the delicate gums. Once there is a wound on the surface of the gums, bacteria will take advantage of the opportunity to cause inflammation of the gums.
2. It is easy to cause teeth to loosen and fall out when picking teeth, if often damage to the gums, in the long run will lead to gum recession, the root of the teeth exposed. Due to the shape of the teeth is the head big root small, gum shrinkage, so that the gap between the roots of the teeth increased, food debris is easier to go in. The more debris there is, the harder you pick your teeth, and so the cycle continues, eventually leading to a loss of protection for the roots, causing the teeth to loosen or fall out.
3. The surface of the teeth is covered with a layer of enamel, which can play a role in protecting the dentin. The enamel at the root of the tooth is very thin, often picking teeth will make the enamel wear. Teeth lose the protective layer will be sensitive to cold, hot, sour, sweet, and easy to cause toothache.
Many people have the habit of picking their teeth with a toothpick after a meal, unbeknownst to them, the wrong way of picking teeth or picking teeth every day for no reason, the gap between the teeth will be bigger and bigger, but also damage to the gums, but not to achieve the role of protecting the teeth, the incorrect use of toothpicks and even four major hazards:
First of all, the disinfection of laxity, poor management of toothpicks easy to cause disease.
Anyone grabbed the toothpick attached to a variety of bacteria, viruses will enter the body through the toothpick, according to the health department laboratory, a small toothpick is "hidden" tens of thousands of bacteria.
Secondly, improper use of toothpicks will lead to periodontal disease. If there is no plugging phenomenon and picking teeth or improper use of toothpicks will cause gingivitis, gingival recession, the gap between the teeth and lead to periodontal disease, do not force the toothpicks into the interdental papilla area, because this will make the gap between the teeth would not have a gap to increase the cause of periodontal disease.
Third, gripping a toothpick inadvertently may be life-threatening. According to Jinan Stomatological Hospital, a consumer accidentally swallowed a toothpick into the belly, the small intestine through the small intestine, by the hospital emergency surgery to remove from the body, nearly lost his life, similar patients recently the hospital has been treated two cases.
In addition, wooden toothpicks cause huge consumption of wood, according to statistics, the country to consume more than 600 billion toothpicks each year, if made of wood consumption of timber 1.6 million cubic meters, equivalent to 2.03 million acres of woods; made of bamboo 1.4 million tons of consumption of bamboo, equivalent to 0.7 million acres of bamboo, South Korea, Japan and other developed countries have been banned comprehensively wooden toothpicks. At the same time toothpick production process and the use of environmental pollution.
Consumer alerts pointed out that the hygiene of toothpicks and the correct use of directly related to dental health and oral health, must not be taken lightly.
First of all, if there is no plugging phenomenon do not pick teeth, at the same time, to develop the habit of brushing correctly every day; Secondly, do not hold a toothpick, because the head of the toothpick is more pointed, inadvertent entry into the esophagus, there is a risk to life, for dental diseases and food embedded in the plugged teeth of consumers, can choose to use
100% degradation of starch toothpicks; promote the use of gap brush instead of toothpicks, gap brush is a kind of Cleaning teeth neighboring plaque food debris special small brush, the use of gap brush on the teeth of the cleaning effect is very good, but also to prevent periodontal disease, therefore, should be strongly advocated.
In addition, the choice of using toothpicks, to choose products made of cork, the surface should be smooth and non-prickly, the tip can not be too sharp, should be rounded, to choose the packaging is better, there is the name of the factory, the factory address, the health license number, after a strict disinfection of the products of the regular manufacturers, did not put in closed containers and may cause contamination of toothpicks, please do not use.
Consumer alerts finally pointed out that consumers should remember, poor quality toothpicks picking teeth will make the teeth more picking the worse.