Clean Your Teeth Correctly


by Alexander Brin - Date: 2006-12-12 - Word Count: 377 Share This!

As the experts of the World Organization of Public Health Services approve, 95 % of grown-ups of our planet suffer from gum-diseases. Today ulitis, parodontosis and caries are the principal causes of the loss of teeth among the youth. The most of people don't clean their teeth correctly and this fact plays a big role in occurrence of these diseases.

Some ways of cleaning teeth have been offered from the moment of appearing of the first tooth-brush. All of them have the advantages and disadvantages. Usually the dentist recommends this or that way of cleaning teeth, according to the conditions that he observes in his patient's mouth.

However, there are also standard methods of cleaning teeth allowing coping with the primary aims of this hygienic action. And these tasks are not only the clarification of the teeth surfaces but also the removal the tartar from interdental spaces, and also the massage of gums.

So, the standard procedure of cleaning teeth is the following:

1. It is necessary to arrange the brush with the angle of 45 degrees to the tooth surface. The cleaning begins at open dental lines.
2. Start cleaning the teeth of the top jaw with the cheek surface. Make 10 movements, after that do the same for the teeth from the other side of the top jaw.
3. Back and forth motions in horizontal and vertical direction clean the internal teeth surfaces inverted to the tongue.
4. Then start cleaning the chewing surfaces of the teeth. It is necessary to make 10-15 movements from each side outwards from the mouth.
5. Repeat the same actions for the teeth of the bottom jaw.
6. At cleaning the forward teeth arrange the brush perpendicularly to the dental line.
7. Finish cleaning teeth with the massage of gums.

All the process of cleaning teeth should take not less than 3 minutes.

I want to pay your attention to the basic mistakes while cleaning the teeth.

1. Making only horizontal movements within cleaning all the surfaces of teeth.
2. Reciprocating character of movements.
3. Cleaning only the vestibular teeth surface.
4. Insufficient amount of the movements made at each stage of cleaning.

It is important to remember that cleaning the teeth with the help of a tooth-brush should be supported with the usage of special threads.


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