Maintain healthy teeth throughout his life requires oral hygiene rigorous and effective.

Maintain healthy teeth throughout his life requires oral hygiene rigorous and effective. This is based mainly on a regular brushing after every meal, use of fluoridated toothpaste and regular visits to the dentist.


In the beginning ...
bacterial plaque

Plaque is a sticky substance and invisible, which is deposited on the teeth and in which house the bacteria. This can lead to cavities, gingivitis may appear on the supporting tissues of the tooth, or periodontal disease.
When not removed, plaque hardens is calcifie to form tartar. Over time, it thickens and only a scaling by a dental surgeon can then remove it.


Gingivitis
The most significant of gingivitis is bleeding that usually occurs when brushing or flossing of passage. A regular and effective brushing is often enough to eliminate gingivitis.
Untreated, it can turn into periodontitis, an infection of the tissues supporting the tooth.
Gingivitis can also be the result of hormonal imbalances during puberty, pregnancy and menopause.


Cavities
Sugary foods are the cause cavities.
Transformed into acids, they gradually destroy the tooth surface. The first signs are pain in the cold, hot or sugar.
The fight against tooth decay should be daily, from an early age.


Fluoride, a friend of your teeth
Fluoride plays an important role in protecting the health of teeth throughout life.
Between 0 and 10 years, he has set in the dental enamel germs, strengthen tooth enamel and protects against acids produced by bacteria.
All life, fluoride promotes remineralization of the tooth surface, slowing the formation of plaque. Fluoride is provided through food, water or fluoride tablets. There are also fluorinated salts.

Dental hygiene is learned from infancy
Contrary to the conventional wisdom teeth are more susceptible to cavities than adult teeth. It is important to learn early children to brush their teeth. From the age of 2 years teach your child to brush their teeth with toothpaste and brush adapted. Cavities on the teeth are not always sensitive, so they are particularly difficult to identify if you Do not keep your child to the dentist.
Even if we are more respectful of our dental hygiene, some improvements are still possible. What are the rules essential to good dental health?


Teeth, you brush after every meal
The plaque, whitish deposit bacteria to proliferate, cause cavities and gum inflammation. As she is recovering in a few hours, it is essential to eliminate a brushing at least twice daily.


A toothbrush bristles flexible nylon, you choose and change every three months
A hard toothbrush may injure the gums and damage the tooth enamel. A worn toothbrush is more effective. Electric toothbrushes can be profitably used, provided they regularly change the end.


The proper technique, you use
Ask toothbrush inclined at 45 degrees across the teeth and gums and brush along the teeth and gums, upper and lower jaw separately, from the gum to the tooth with a rotary motion for three minutes.

Brushing, you will complete by the silk thread
Using a wire floss, in addition to brushing helps remove plaque on the lateral surfaces of the teeth. For people who have teeth or dentures Discalced leaving spaces inaccessible to the brush, it is important to use sticks or inter-dental Brushheads; to remove dental plaque at the base of the teeth and stimulate gums. The jet aircraft are also useful in these cases to remove food debris and massage gums.

The dentist, you annual consultations
An annual visit to the dentist can detect decay time start and will be an opportunity to apply a scaling to remove plaque. Descaling two meetings are reimbursed by social security. But sometimes more is needed. If plaque is not detected in time, it develops in depth and form a pocket between the base of the tooth and gum, which may cause in the long run, a loose tooth. At this stage, curettage under local anesthesia is necessary. This is not reimbursed by social security (price: 69 to 92 € uros per session).


Attention to children
The teeth of our children are fragile and valuable. To preserve the cavities and other annoyances, here are some tips to guarantee them a smile.


The dental path of your children, you will seal
In adolescence the risk of dental caries is particularly high. In 80% cases, these cavities develop in the grooves of molars. In running a film of synthetic resin fluid on the paths, it is possible to prevent these cavities. This treatment can be done right out of the first molars.


A dental hygiene of your children, you will
Bottles of sugar water or milk left at the small child in the evening in his bed are taking their toll, leaving develop plaques and dental caries early. Similarly, the sweets are to be avoided at night. Whenever possible, we should prefer sweets or chewing gum with sugar.


Additional inputs of fluoride in the mother during pregnancy and in childhood may be advised by the doctor to strengthen the teeth. Finally, it is essential to inform the child's use of the toothbrush, as young as two or three years.