Your mouth is the door to your body. If it is unhealthy, the rest of your body will not stay well for long.
This post will teach you the importance of maintaining good oral health as well as some simple tips for doing so.
Benefits of Maintaining Good Oral Health
1. It boosts your confidence:
Some people are ashamed to smile, and others cannot be encouraged to speak in public. Your breath, teeth colour, and arrangement all affect how you appear to observers. Human breath is strongly linked to the emotional centres in our brain. So if your breath smells bad, people will react viscerally, and they will remember.
Moreso, the teeth and jaws fill out the face and add to its shape. A distorted oral space could make you less attractive than you should be.
2. Dental longevity:
1 in 10 elderly adults will lose all their teeth. But you can prevent this from now with simple dental care like brushing twice a day.
3. It prevents common tooth diseases:
These include tooth decay, premature loss, tooth sensitivity, and bad breath.
4. It prevents diseases in other organs:
Poor oral care can increase your risk of disease in other systems. These diseases include infective endocarditis, premature delivery in pregnant women, stroke, and heart attacks. This is besides the oral complications like tooth decay.
Simple Tips for Maintaining Good Oral Health
Brush twice daily
Use a soft brush. A hard brush (or a “smoker’s brush”) will damage your teeth. Brush in circles or angles that aim at the junction between your teeth and gums to reach plaque building up there. Brush your tongue too for fresh breath.
Brush with fluoride-containing toothpaste
This helps your teeth to retain minerals like calcium and stay hard and strong. After you finish brushing, don’t rinse your mouth. I’m serious—don’t. This helps the fluoride work for longer. But ensure that you don’t use more than a pea-sized amount.
Rinse your mouth with water after each meal
This helps clear food residue and prevent the buildup of bacteria and plaque.
Floss after each meal
Use a floss thread or floss stick to remove food residue from between the teeth.
See the dentist twice a year
This is the minimum requirement. They will help you detect tooth problems and begin early intervention.
Conclusion
I may have never seen you before, but I love to see you smile. May you never lose that privilege.
Till next time.
