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Prevention of caries - how to stop and prevent caries
Preventing caries is the fastest and most affordable way to a healthy, radiant smile. After all, it is because of caries that most of the problems with the teeth arise. And we all know that prevention of caries should be started from childhood, taking care of your teeth.
Depending on the depth of the lesion, there are two types of caries:
Uncomplicated caries:
the stage of a stain is the easiest form of caries, a slightly noticeable spot on the tooth surface. At this stage, the person does not feel any discomfort and may not even guess about this disease.
surface caries - tooth enamel becomes rough. Under the action of mechanical or thermal stimuli, a person feels short-term pain.
Complicated tooth decay.
If caries is not cured at the stage of deep caries, it develops into a more serious and unpleasant disease called pulpitis. Caries differs from pulpitis by the fact that caries causes destruction of hard tissues without inflammation of the pulp. Pulp is a neurovascular bundle in the mouth. Inflammation of the pulp is accompanied by aching acute or chronic pain.
There are two methods for the prevention of caries:
Local method - aimed at improving hygiene.
The general method is aimed at improving the food culture.
To begin, consider the local method of caries prevention. It also has several sub-items.
1. Oral hygiene. This is the easiest and most proven method, the efficiency of which is almost 100%. The concept of oral hygiene includes:
Brushing your teeth after every meal (breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner). It is very important to brush your teeth thoroughly during the first five minutes after eating. It has been observed that during the first 40 minutes the most detrimental effect on the oral cavity of food and microorganism remains occurs. It is also worth refusing snacking, for example, with a candy or a bun, since after such snacking you should also carefully brush your teeth.
Use dental floss. It is recommended to clean the tooth with dental floss after every meal. This is done before brushing and brushing your teeth. Your dental doctor can teach you how to clean your teeth with floss. The purpose of such cleaning is to remove stuck food between your teeth.
2. Fluoride prophylaxis - saturation of tooth enamel with mineral elements. Photo prophylaxis differs at home (held at home) and professional.
Home photo prevention is to brush your teeth with a toothpaste containing fluoride. Also at home you can use fluoride rinses, which are presented in pharmacies and hypermarkets.
Professional dental treatment is that a varnish containing fluoride is applied to the cleaned and dried enamel of the teeth with a brush. Within a few hours, fluoride penetrates the enamel of the teeth, and the film dissolves.
The general method of prevention is also divided into several stages. First, as we mentioned above, it is worth refusing snacking between meals. The second, no less important aspect is vitamin therapy. The use of vitamins against caries is not as widespread, but it is believed that vitamins such as B1 and B6 have an anti-caries effect.
It is not excluded the possibility that in the near future, scientists will develop and vaccination against caries. Over this work for more than one year, but so far no effective results have been achieved.
How to prevent caries?
Scientists have identified a number of useful products that can prevent tooth decay.
Cheese. After you have eaten, something sweet is worth eating it with a small piece of low-fat cheese. It stimulates the formation of saliva, which neutralizes acid. It is also noted that in the cheese there are a number of useful substances that prevent tooth enamel from being destroyed.
Solid fruits and vegetables. It is proved that these products slow down the process of tooth decay. Due to their composition, they scrape off some of the bacteria and tartar.
Yogurt. Natural fat-free yoghurt is an excellent source of calcium.
Hot pepper. Salivation begins to stand out from hot peppers, it neutralizes the tooth enamel and cleans the teeth.
How to stop and prevent tooth decay? Very simple! It is necessary to be careful with food sticking to the teeth, it can be bananas and raisins. Of course, they are useful for your body, but not for the teeth. We do not urge you to immediately abandon these products. The main thing is to brush or rinse your teeth after every meal.
How to protect your teeth from caries?
In the 600th century BC, India fought dental parasites with mouthwash with solutions of mustard, ginger, or alkaline ash. It is interesting that in ancient Chinese language the hieroglyph designating caries is depicted with the help of a worm on the top of the tooth, and henbane is mentioned as the main component for toothpaste. Such toothpastes used in Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Middle East and Central Asia.
We also dare to note that the bacteria that have got accustomed in the mouth are very large sweets. Therefore, we recommend reducing the consumption of sugary drinks and food. Scientists have noticed that people who refuse sweet, almost never face tooth decay.
Caries causes the most destructive effect within twenty or forty minutes after eating, therefore after each meal it is recommended to brush your teeth and paste. The degree of tooth decay is directly proportional to the amount of sugar consumed. Also, after each meal, you can rinse your mouth with a weak salt solution.
Also for the prevention of caries, it is recommended to chew propolis or wasabi, which reduce the number of parasites in the oral cavity. Wasabi is not used in Russian cuisine; you can find it in a sushi bar or specialized Japanese food stores.
If you adhere to these few rules, we are sure that even a Hollywood star will be envied by your smile!
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