Dental Care - Where Heathy Habits Shine!"

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What do you think are essential steps for cleanliness of teeth?

From my understanding, teeth cleanliness is done by a dentist because it is not the normal taking care of teeth with water, tooth brush and paste. Although, the cleaning process differs with each dentist, people do not like going to the dentist even when they cannot handle it, they prefer self-medication.

There are a whole lot of processes undergone in teeth cleanliness, that leads me to the steps taken in teeth cleanliness;

•Teeth examination: before a hygienist begins the dental cleaning, they examine your mouth physically. During this process, the hygienist use a small mirror to examine the mouth, the gum and the teeth.
The purpose for this examination is to check for decay, inflammation or other dental problems. You know you cannot have a tooth problem and carry out a teeth cleaning, so the dentist will have to decide on that.

•Scaling: this is a process where the hygienist removes the tartar (a harden dental plague) between the teeth and around the gum lines with a small mirror as a guide.

•Cleaning and polishing: on this level, the hygienist uses an electric toothbrush to remove any residual tartar after scaling. This process is painless but comes with so much noise. For the cleaning, a professional toothpaste is used for it.

[a screenshot from google]teeth cleaning process

•Flossing; this process dislodges any food particles or food stuck between your teeth and the gum, which reduces the chances of bacteria.

•Rinsing; the hygienist uses water or a liquid fluoride to get the whole mouth totally clean. It is indeed the final stage of the cleaning process.

What kind of food is harmful for teeth health?

•Sticky candies and sweets can get stuck in the teeth and gum.

•Starchy foods like bread, chips, rice, can be harmful to the teeth when they get trapped between the teeth.

•Regular taking of alcohol can also be harmful to the teeth.

•Carbonated soft drinks and carbonated wine can be harmful to the teeth.

•Dried fruits are also harmful to the teeth.

Is there any traditional or modern technique you use for your teeth (either your answer is yes or no give your reasons)

Yes, I use a local or herbal powder paste to brush my teeth because I underwent surgery in my mouth years back and certain pastes were recommended to me.

my dental powder

Each time I fail to use those recommended pastes, I feel pain at that spot for weeks unless I use another local method of lukewarm water with salt to hold still on that spot else, the pain continues.

But the use of this powder paste has been very good and so effective in my mouth. I use it twice a day.

Describe if you have any dental problems and if not, give some suggestions to maintain healthy teeth

Oh yes! Some years back I had an operation in my mouth. I had this gum growth that disturbed me for almost a month. I couldn't bite food, I was only feeding on liquid-like foods so that I could have something in my stomach.

My mom took me to a dentist to check what could be done about it. The dentist suggested an operation immediately (this operation was to cut off the growth), we didn't go back home but stayed for the operation.

I woke up after the operation with pains all over my mouth. My mouth was filled with cotton wool that kept soaking every minute with blood. This process took a while for me to get better.

Although it has been a long time now and am fine I only feel severe pain on that spot when I change my toothpaste.

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