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Not a silly question but one with a very easy-to-follow solution.
If you know how to take care of teeth you will save yourself many problems as you get older.
Dental health is closely linked to physical health, and fortunately there are many inexpensive techniques to keep teeth healthy and prevent expensive – and often expensive dental treatment sessions.
Diet.
1. Have a healthy diet. Eat plenty of fruit. Soda is very acidic. It is so very acidic that even diet soda can cause tooth decay. Keep soda and sweetened drinks to a minimum. Limit consumption to not more than one or two glasses of soda per week.
It has been suggested that adding two teaspoons of cod liver oil to your diet reduces tooth decay by at least 40% by adding vitamins that aren’t in most diets.
2. Don't drink milk or eat snacks at night after brushing. Only eat sticky sweets close to meal times.
3. Remember that processed fruit snacks are not healthy snacks. These fruit snacks are candy wearing a healthy looking package. Temptation in disguise.
4. Stain causing offenders are coffee, cigarettes and red wine. Drinking healthy peppermint tea can also cause this problem.
Plaque. (Dental dirt)
This forms naturally on the teeth and when not removed but left undisturbed, can cause decay in the form of cavities (holes) in the teeth and damage to the gums.
To successfully remove this danger you need to clean your teeth a minimum of twice per day – once in the morning and again at bedtime.
If you can also clean your teeth after lunch (mid-day), or before any meeting/engagement, so much the better.
The night-time cleaning routine is the most important. Use either a Te-Pe brush or dental floss to clean between the teeth, follow this up with a good brushing with a soft brush and a pea sized dab of tooth-paste and then a final mouthwash.
So the drill is:
Using a dab of fluoride tooth paste is helpful, but the mechanical action of brushing is more important than any toothpaste or mouth rinse.
Mechanical (electric) toothbrushes are more effective than standard toothbrushes.
Inexpensive mechanical brushes that spin in one direction do not clean as well as toothbrushes that rotate (Oral-B models), or vibrate sonically (Philips Sonicar). Finish off with rinsing the mouth with a non-alcoholic mouth wash.
but you are worth looking after.
Make a point of going to the dentist every six months for a check-up and make sure you clean your teeth properly.
Yes - maybe it's inconvenient. It may not be cheap to go to the dentist for these checkups but definitely worthwhile and a whole lot cheaper than having to pay for major surgery if any fault/decay is left to fester.
Your dentist can find small cavities and repair them. Waiting for the cavity to become noticeable or painful usually means that the tooth could need expensive root canal treatment, a crown, or extraction.
Plus there is the danger that if decay is left to fester, then an abscess may possibly develop resulting in the possible loss of the tooth. Don’t go down that road - it's both painful and expensive.
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