1, maintain good oral hygiene habits.
The World Health Organization defines "the standard of oral health" as: clean teeth, no cavities, no pain, normal gum color and no bleeding.
Brushing teeth is an important measure to maintain oral hygiene. It can remove food residues and dental plaque attached to the tooth surface or neck, reduce the chance of bacterial reproduction, massage gums and enhance the disease resistance of tissues. Brushing your teeth after getting up in the morning can reduce oral microbes by 60%, which shows that brushing your teeth is necessary. How to brush your teeth correctly? The toothbrush should be brushed along the direction of tooth growth, with the upper teeth brushing from top to bottom and the lower teeth brushing from bottom to top. First of all, the bristles should be parallel to the long axis of the teeth and close to the surface of the teeth. The bristles should be gently rotated to the inner edge of the gums, so that the bristles can brush out dirt through the interface between the gums and the teeth. This is the same as brushing a comb. Only by brushing down the teeth can the teeth be cleaned. For people who chew food on their back teeth, they can pull the first brush back and forth. Some people pay attention to brushing the outside of teeth, but for teeth.
Regular oral examination.
The harm of dental caries to human teeth is irreversible. Therefore, people should go to the hospital for oral examination regularly, and once they find that they have dental caries, they should be treated in time. Many adults think that preventing dental caries is a child's business, and adults don't need to prevent dental caries. This view is wrong. In fact, the harm of dental caries to adult teeth is also quite serious. Therefore, experts suggest that adults (especially middle-aged and elderly people over 50 years old) should go to the hospital for dental examination once a year. In addition, because dental caries will affect the growth and development of children's permanent teeth in the tooth-changing period, children in the tooth-changing period should go to the hospital for dental examination every 3 ~ 6 months.
Develop good oral hygiene habits.
It is very important to develop good oral hygiene habits to prevent dental caries. At present, the common methods of oral cleaning are gargling, brushing teeth and cleaning teeth. It should be noted that people should gargle after three meals a day, and warm water of about 40 degrees Celsius should be used for each gargle; Brush your teeth once in the morning and once in the evening. Choose a toothbrush with moderate bristle hardness. When brushing your teeth, put the toothbrush at the root of your teeth. Brush your upper teeth from top to bottom and brush your lower teeth from bottom to top. Brush your teeth from the inside out and from left to right every time. Make sure to brush your teeth for at least 3 minutes at a time. Tooth washing includes flossing your own teeth and going to the hospital to ask a doctor to wash your teeth. The advantage of flossing your teeth is that you can clean the side and back of your teeth that the toothbrush can't brush. Adults should floss once a month. Going to the hospital to wash your teeth can completely remove dirt, tartar and residue from your teeth. Adults should go to the hospital to have their teeth cleaned twice a year.
Unfortunately, almost all people in China have dental diseases. According to the statistics of Chinese Stomatological Association and National Dental Prevention and Treatment Group, the prevalence rate of oral diseases in China is as high as 97%, mainly due to poor health care awareness. I often hear people say, "Toothache is not a disease, it hurts like hell." . In fact, toothache not only makes us miserable, but also induces heart disease, arteriosclerosis, stroke, pneumonia, rheumatism and kidney disease, which poses a great threat to life.
We always naively think that if you brush your teeth carefully with toothpaste every morning and evening, you will have good teeth. When I wake up, I find an embarrassing fact: more than 65.438+300 million people brush their teeth seriously every day, and more than 900 million people have dental diseases! It seems that we should wake up-because the ingredients of toothpaste are mainly chemical raw materials, which only play the role of cleaning the mouth, and it is easy to produce stones and stains, which will affect the taste and produce drug resistance, so it is not suitable for long-term use; Recently, some big brands of toothpaste have repeatedly broken down. Should we be misled by them again?
Cruel facts show that China lacks high-quality tooth protection products. Developed countries have implemented the national oral health care plan: the United States is the 7722 plan (that is, at the age of 77, there are still 22 functional teeth to chew); Japan and Taiwan Province Province are 8020 projects (that is, 20 functional teeth can be chewed at the age of 80); China also designated September 20th as Love Teeth Day. Now the world's unique high-quality Aoleiwei Koubao will undertake the historical mission of this plan!
Some people don't pay attention to their toothache, looseness and trembling, and regard it as a minor problem. If modern medicine is so advanced, they can still eat with dentures. In fact, many people will regret it when they really wear dentures. Because when you lose your real teeth, you also lose your health, money, luck in eating delicious food and lost youth.
Tooth loss = "digging a hole in the bone"
Teeth are exposed bones, which are fixed by roots (alveolar bones) buried deep in gums. Because of frequent chewing friction, gum (the joint between teeth and gums) is the weak link of human health defense. 90% of adults will be attacked by periodontal disease, and gums are the most easily "corroded" by periodontal bacteria. Show gum bleeding first. With the expansion and deepening of the scope of "corrosion", it gradually appears sore and weak, loose and shaking until it falls off.
Have you ever thought that the "wound" at the gum is a "channel" for bacteria and viruses to enter the human blood, which can induce diseases such as heart disease, arteriosclerosis, stroke, pneumonia, rheumatism, kidney, etc., and become an "accomplice" of the disease invisibly, posing a great threat to life, and the levee of a thousand miles collapses in the ant nest. Physicians have found lipopolysaccharide and toxin related to periodontal bacteria from the vascular wall of patients with coronary heart disease, which has a strong destructive effect on cardiovascular system; In addition, the study also found that periodontal bacteria entering blood vessels can inflame vascular endothelium and promote thrombosis, which is a risk factor for stroke; And because there are a lot of bacteria in the unclean mouth, these bacteria can be inhaled into the trachea and enter the lungs, leading to pneumonia.
Loose teeth are equivalent to a shaking "cork", moving around on the gum bone, leaking blood, water and air (bleeding gums, pus, bad breath, etc. ), bacteria breed in these cracks. With the increase of shaking degree, the "hole" on the bone becomes bigger and bigger until one day it is pulled out or falls off, leaving a big "meat pit" on the bone.
There are many kinds of periodontal bacteria with tenacious vitality, which produce various toxins and "destructive factors", which are difficult to eliminate only by antibacterial and anti-inflammatory. Only by stimulating the human body's own immune potential can we finally overcome periodontal disease.
Teeth are the last bones that people grow and the first bones that fall off, so there is a saying that "teeth are bones". Osteopathy often manifests itself in teeth, especially in middle-aged and elderly people. Osteoporosis, tooth weakness, gingival atrophy, tooth looseness and tooth loss often occur at the same time.
From the medical point of view, bone is a living tissue, which is constantly undergoing metabolic activities all its life. Alveolar bone is the most active part of human bone metabolism, which is constantly undergoing the process of osteolysis and bone formation (reconstruction). After middle age, the speed of bone dissolution is faster than that of bone formation, and the content of bone calcium is slowly lost. The most obvious performance is often alveolar bone (periodontal tissue), just like when tap water is scarce, the top floor of the building stops water first. When bone loss occurs, alveolar bone and periodontal tissue will first show symptoms: gum pain, subgingival, root shaking and even falling off.
At present, osteoporosis is difficult to treat, and it is difficult to solve the fundamental problem simply by supplementing calcium.
How much does it cost to pull out a tooth?
How much does it cost for a person to lose his first tooth and install false teeth, then lose his tooth and install false teeth until all his teeth are gone? Many people have not calculated it carefully, telling you that the average is 6000 ~ 50000 yuan. It's not that I don't know, it's shock.
Many people have the experience of tooth extraction and tooth fitting. Every time a tooth is pulled out, it takes several months to install dentures, and the dentures have to be fixed on the adjacent real teeth, which increases their burden. After a few years, like a domino, the adjacent teeth will loosen again, and then they will be pulled out and fitted again, and so on until they are full of teeth and fitted with false teeth. This process lasts for years, decades or even decades.
Looking back, there are tens of thousands of dollars spent on teeth (and at their own expense), the energy spent, the time spent on seeing a doctor and fitting teeth, and the pain that money can't make up. It would be terrible if you accidentally swallow your dentures with food. Dentures can't be digested by the stomach, and there are iron hooks on them. Go to the hospital quickly, cut open your stomach and take out your dentures, not to mention how much it cost. This is a big sin.
Gold, one gram worth about 100 yuan, is a very valuable thing. A real tooth weighs about two to three grams. If you lose it, it will cost at least a few hundred yuan to install a denture. Economically speaking, the value of a real tooth is several times or even ten times that of gold. However, the lack of real teeth can not be made up by spending money alone.
Most importantly, compared with the real teeth, the installed dentures are very different in feeling and convenience: eating is not fragrant, speaking is inaccurate, feeling insensitive (I can't tell the difference between meat and vegetables), tasteless, foreign body sensation in the mouth, eating fish without thorns, eating watermelon without seeds, and eating meat like chewing rubber. It's like scratching boots, and the blind touch the elephant, which is not easy to read.
What's more, after a person loses his teeth, his face and chin will be deformed and look 5 ~ 10 years older. Moreover, I will feel "old-fashioned" psychologically, feel old, lose self-confidence, and have a kind of sadness that the years are gone forever.
In fact, it is not difficult to keep real teeth as long as we pay attention to and care for teeth as early as possible, actively treat periodontal diseases, choose scientific dental care products and adopt correct dental care methods. If you care for your teeth as much as you care for your life, your teeth can accompany you all your life.
How many teeth does a person have?
With the growth of age, the child's jaw gradually grows and grows. Generally, teeth change after the age of 6. Primary teeth gradually fall off and permanent teeth erupt one after another. Under normal circumstances, it takes about half a year for each deciduous tooth to fall off and the permanent tooth to grow out. The first eruption of permanent teeth is after the second deciduous molar. At the same time, the central incisors of permanent teeth erupt, the central incisors of deciduous teeth fall off, and then lateral incisors, canines, second and third molars grow in turn. Sometimes the first pair of fangs erupt earlier than the fangs. Generally, the left and right teeth with the same name erupt at the same time, and the upper and lower teeth with the same name erupt earlier. With the evolution of human beings, some people have no third molar for life. www.ff70.com
Tooth type, teething time, total number of teeth
First molar (4) 6 ~ 7 years old 4
Anterior teeth (8) 6 ~ 9 years old 12
Bicuspid (8) 9 ~ 13 years old 20
Fangs (4) 9 ~ 14 years old 24
Second molar (4) 12 ~ 15 years old 28
Third molar (4) 17 ~ 30 years old 32
When changing teeth, children have developed good oral hygiene habits. Such as gargling after meals, brushing your teeth in the morning and evening, and using health care toothbrush correctly. Correct the malocclusion in time, otherwise it will not only affect the appearance, but also affect the chewing, breathing and language functions, and hinder the normal development and health of the body and face. If you brush your teeth, it is commonly known as "the sky is full of ground", and it will be corrected after 5 years old. The best age for malocclusion correction is around 12 ~ 16. It affects tooth development too early, and it is difficult to correct bone calcification too late.
Say "No" to Fluorine-containing Oral Care Products
Fluorine is an essential trace element for human body, and it is also an essential element for forming tough bones and preventing dental caries. At the same time, fluorine is an extremely active and toxic chemical element, which can only exist in the form of compounds in nature.
The fluoride needed by human body mainly comes from drinking water. The fluorine content in drinking water is 0.5- 1.0mg/dm3, and the incidence of dental caries is 70%-90% below this value. When the fluorine content in drinking water exceeds 4mg/dm3, people are prone to skeletal fluorosis, and skeletal deformity seriously threatens human health. At present, there is no specific treatment for fluorosis. The main method is to reduce the fluorine content in drinking water, and boiling is the simplest method to remove fluorine.
There is no doubt that fluoride toothpaste has played a positive role in preventing dental caries. However, with the improvement of people's living standards and the continuous improvement of drinking water quality, the fluoride intake of Chinese residents can fully meet the needs. In this case, continuing to use fluoride toothpaste can only make the fluoride content in the human body exceed the standard. In June, 2005 165438+ 10/7, a special report on page A07 of Legal Evening News was titled "Do not use fluoride toothpaste under six years old". According to the statement, children under the age of six are still developing, fluoride turns teeth yellow, and children may be acutely poisoned if they consume 5 mg of fluoride per kilogram of body weight. In fact, pregnant women cannot use fluoride toothpaste, which will have side effects on the fetus. Because fluoride toothpaste is especially harmful to children and pregnant women, the United States and some European countries have banned the continued production and sale.
Healthy living begins with oral health care.
According to experts, oral diseases have been listed by the World Health Organization as common and frequently-occurring diseases that endanger human health and seriously affect people's quality of life.
The proportion of people suffering from periodontal disease in China is as high as 80%. Studies have proved that bacteria that cause periodontal disease can lead to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, heart disease, pneumonia, and even premature delivery of pregnant women. Because all kinds of germs enter the blood through the affected area, they produce a colloidal protein similar to platelets, which promotes blood coagulation and leads to heart disease and stroke; Bacteria are inhaled into the lungs to form pneumonia; Entering the placenta through blood leads to premature delivery. The results of the second national oral health survey show that 77% of children over 5 years old in China have dental caries, and each 5-year-old child has an average of 4.48 dental caries. To care about children's health, we should not only know how to cultivate children's healthy living habits, but also choose suitable oral care products for children. An oral care product with no side effects and no fluoride will not harm children even if it is eaten by mistake.
The "Enemy" of Oral Health-Dental Plaque
There are many bacteria in the oral environment. These bacteria will adhere to the surface of teeth, grow and multiply rapidly, and form dental plaque. If dental plaque is not removed in time, it will continue to expand calcification on the tooth surface and gradually deposit to form dental calculus. Dental calculus will exert mechanical pressure on gums, affect blood circulation, and multiply a large number of bacteria, leading to inflammation, erosion and bleeding of gums. If gingivitis continues to develop, it will lead to the destruction of alveolar bone and periodontal ligament, and even gingival atrophy, which will lead to root exposure, tooth loosening, periodontal disease and serious tooth loss. Dental plaque is also the "culprit" of dental caries. Food residue is the main food source of bacteria in dental plaque or saliva. When teeth chew sugary food, dental plaque will decompose sugar into acidic substances, which will erode enamel and eventually lead to tooth decay and tooth decay.
2. Bad habits that damage oral health
First, brushing your teeth with cold water has many disadvantages.
The most suitable temperature for teeth is 35 ~ 36.5 degrees Celsius, but if you brush your teeth with cold water for a long time, it will easily stimulate your teeth, leading to gum bleeding, pulp spasm or other dental diseases.
Second, it is not advisable to bite the thread.
Many people covet temporary convenience, often bite the packaging bag and thread with their teeth, and some even open the bottle cap with their teeth, which are easy to cause the teeth to bite or shift, which needs our attention.
Third, blocking the teeth does not hurt the teeth.
When eating, it is easy to cause tooth blockage. If the residues of these foods are not removed in time, it is easy to damage gingival tissue, leading to bad breath and gingival atrophy. In severe cases, the teeth may loosen and even lead to tooth loss. Therefore, it is necessary to remove the teeth in time after plugging, and it is recommended to remove them with floss.
Fourth, unilateral chewing is harmful.
Some people always like to chew food with only one tooth, which will easily lead to uneven development of muscles, joints and jaws on both sides, which will easily lead to excessive wear of general teeth and dysfunction of jaw joints, and the other side may also be useless. Therefore, when chewing, pay attention to the balanced chewing on both sides.
Don't rinse your mouth after drinking coffee and tea.
Coffee, tea, red wine and some dark drinks are all the causes of pigment teeth, but many people don't pay enough attention to them. After drinking these deeply colored drinks, they don't pay attention to gargle, so the deposition of pigment can easily lead to tooth discoloration.
Sixth, the teeth alternating hot and cold are uncomfortable.
Teeth are allergic to cold and heat. Too cold and too hot will stimulate the gums and lead to tooth cracking. People often eat cold drinks immediately after eating hot food, which is easy to cause tooth damage. So pay attention to eat as little food as possible that is too hot or too cold.
Seven, the toothbrush will never change for a long time.
Using the toothbrush for a long time will easily lead to the deformation of toothbrush bristles, which not only can not effectively clean teeth, but also may stab the gums. Therefore, it is suggested that the longest use time of long brush is half a year. Generally speaking, toothbrushes should be replaced every three months.
Eight, chewing gum all day.
Do you know that chewing gum is also harmful to oral health? According to Dr. Bill Doffman, a famous American dental expert, if you chew gum all day, it is equivalent to soaking your teeth in sugar water. Such damage can be imagined. It is suggested that sugar-free chewing gum or xylitol chewing gum can be used.
These oral habits, which are always neglected by us, are always hurting our oral health. Healthy teeth need to start from the dribs and drabs of life, so as to develop good oral habits and keep dental diseases away from us.