Suggestion: It is best to brush your teeth with warm water close to your body temperature.
Mistake 2: Brush your teeth too hard.
Suggestion: 200 grams of strength is enough, which is roughly equivalent to picking up an popsicle with your fingers and brushing your teeth with the strength of your wrist instead of your arm.
Mistake 3: Brush your teeth sideways.
Suggestion: The correct way to brush your teeth is to brush vertically between your teeth.
Mistake 4: The brushing time is too short.
Many people think that the purpose of brushing teeth is to remove food residues, but it is not entirely true. Rinsing your mouth with clear water can remove more than 90% of food residues, and the purpose of brushing your teeth carefully is to eliminate dental plaque.
Dental plaque is a colorless bacterium attached to the tooth surface and gingival space, which is the chief culprit of dental caries and gingivitis. In China, the average time for people to brush their teeth is 59 seconds, which is not enough to thoroughly clean their mouths.
Suggestion: Brush your teeth for at least 2 minutes. Rinse your mouth first. Moisturizing is beneficial to the effective ingredients in toothpaste. Carefully brush it vertically from the front teeth, especially in places that are easily overlooked, such as between the teeth and the inside of the teeth.
Because the growth cycle of dental plaque is 12-24 hours, you should brush your teeth at least every 24 hours even if you are on a business trip.
Mistake 5: Wrong brushing time.
98% of China people get up early to brush their teeth every day, and then have breakfast. In this way, the effective tooth protection ingredients in toothpaste do not have much chance to stay on the teeth, but are eaten in the stomach with breakfast.
Suggestion: Brush your teeth 20 minutes after meals. Rinse your mouth with water after getting up, eat breakfast and brush your teeth for 20 minutes after meals. Especially after drinking acidic drinks or eating acidic fruits, it is best to brush your teeth after 20 minutes, so as not to cause more damage to your teeth.
Mistake 6: Rinse your mouth too much after brushing your teeth.
Suggestion: 1 mouthwash 10 second is enough. The experiment found that when we spit out the first mouthwash after brushing our teeth, 95% of the effective ingredients were spit out, and the remaining 5% was spit out in the second mouth.
Therefore, it is enough to rinse your mouth once after brushing your teeth with toothpaste, and the rinsing time is about 10 second.
Mistake 7: Stay up late and drink less water.
Saliva can balance the oral ecology. After 1 1 pm, people's oral environment will begin to enter a dry period, and oral dryness will breed bacteria.
Suggestion: Drink more green tea and water. Green tea can not only replenish water, but also contain fluoride, which can protect teeth from bacteria.
Mistake 8: Clean with a big toothbrush.
Suggestion: Choose a toothbrush with the right size. The size of the tooth head should be equal to the width of two and a half to three teeth.
How to brush your teeth is healthy?
① Choose a soft-haired toothbrush, and point the toothbrush at a 45-degree angle with the long axis of the teeth to the root tip;
(2) Pressing the gingival-dental junction area to make one part of the bristles enter the gingival sulcus, and the other part spread out on the gingival margin, reaching into the adjacent gap as far as possible;
(3) Two brushes and ten horizontal brushes;
④ Brush the buccal side with the same hand and the lingual side with the opposite hand;
⑤ lingual and palatal surfaces of anterior teeth: brush up and down;
⑥ Tooth chewing surface: brush before and after;
⑦ Brush above and brush below;
8 Brush your teeth to "cover everything".