Having a healthy mouth makes you feel good about yourself. There is nothing worse than walking around in your day to day life knowing that your mouth is not as healthy as it could be and putting up with aching teeth and sore gums. The best person to speak to about your oral hygiene is your Leeds dentist because he or she is an expert in all matters concerning your mouth.
The first thing that your dentist will tell you is that the way you go about brushing and flossing your teeth at home is really important. You need to make sure that you have a tooth brush that is fit for purpose, meaning that it has nice, stiff bristles which can adequately clean the plaque from the surfaces of your teeth. It should be comfortable to hold so that you can easily manoeuvre it around your mouth and you ought to use a type of tooth paste that is enriched with fluoride; this will strengthen your teeth.
Flossing should be done after you have brushed your teeth so that any plaque and food debris that has built up in the small gaps between your teeth is removed too. Gum disease can easily result if you don’t floss like you ought to. Plaque left on the gum line of teeth will eventually gums to become inflamed and you will experience sensitivity when you eat and drink. In the long term, tooth loss is a real risk because the inflammation can spread from your gums to the bones which hold your teeth in place.
Make sure you get your mouth checked out by a dentist every six months too.
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