How you will maintain Oral hygiene

How you will maintain Oral hygiene

Maintaining oral hygiene is a key factor for General Health. Already in my last Blog i discussed in details about, Poor Oral Hygiene can causes several Health disease. In this blog I will say how you will maintain oral hygiene. 

How you will maintain Oral hygiene?

• Rinse mouth with water after every food,sometime use Chlorhexidine mouthwash.
• Stick to gentle, twice-daily brushing with a soft/medium bristle or electric brush 
• Use proper tooth brush & tooth paste. Clean your tongue with tongue cleaner.
• Floss once daily & you can massage gum with your finger.
• Chewing habit of hard & fibrous food is a good habit, don't take always soft or liquid food.
• Avoid Tobacco, Alcohol
• Also be sure to schedule regular dentist visits for plaque and tartar removal. Every 6 month visit Dentist for scaling treatment,for prevention of dental & general health problems.
• If you are having caries or broken tooth, ulcer then get the treatment.
•  If your tooth Restoration is compromised then get the  necessary treatments & if you are using Denture or any appliances in our mouth then clean it regularly.

Tooth brushing Technique:

1.Rotary Brushing Technique:

• Fones Brushing Technique: it is simplest way for children tooth brushing place the toothbrush on a set of the teeth then activate the bristles by slightly pressing against the teeth 4-5 times on each set of the teeth and move to the next.

2.Vibratory motion technique:

• Bass method : It is one of the effective type of the brushing technique. In this type bristles are placed directly apically 45-degree angle to the tooth surface or place parallel to the tooth surface press the bristles slightly so that they enter the gumline vibrate the brush back and forth with the 10-15 strokes for each position and move next to the teeth.
• Stillman Brushing Technique: it is similar to bass technique with just slight modification of occlusal movement with short horizontal strokes. Bristles are directed apically & angles same as bass, Bristles are placed partly over cervical part of tooth and partly on adjacent gingival.
• Charter brushing technique: it is the technique mostly used in presence of any appliance in oral cavity position the bristles towards the crown of the teeth the sides of the bristles are placed at gingival margin 45 degree to the long axis of the tooth short back and forth motions are given directly

3.Vertical Sweeping brushing technique:

• Modified Bass / Modified Charter: follow the techniques mentioned in above technique at the end of each technique roll the brush towards the occlusal surface of the teeth full tuft occlusally after cervical area is cleaned by the prescribed method.

4. Horizontal Reciprocating Motion: Place the brush on either on left or right side of the teeth and the brush is moved along the side of the dentition to the back region and pull towards the front region.

How to BRUSH ? So many brushing technique are there to follow, but to simplify normally i will suggest follow this:

• Place the toothbrush at a 45°angle with the gum line & give a mild rotate. Then for upper jaw tooth move the toothbrush upward to downward  motion & for lower tooth move the toothbrush downward to upward motion, and repeat for each tooth.
• Brush two or three tooth at a time& continue for all tooth, start brushing from front side or back side.
• Brush the top surface of all tooth. Brush the inside surface of each tooth, using the same back and forth technique.
• Use tip of brush to brush behind each tooth — front and back, top and bottom and up and down strokes.
• Brush properly to your tooth clean tongue to remove odor-causing bacteria.
• Don't use hard brush. You can use Electric brush. Use proper tooth paste. 

Brushing & flossing Technique