One less obvious way of reducing the amount of bacteria in your mouth is to brush your tongue. Strange as it may sound but on the tongue surface there are many places for bacteria to hide and settle down for there retirement. It builds up there in the same way it does on your teeth and if left can cause other problems.
Try to avoid snacking, if you snack regularly on sugary items you are doing more damage to your teeth than you may think. If you snack here and there throughout the day, then the more times your teeth are under attack from the acid. And because these snacks are sugary it can lead too tooth decay.
Tooth decay is a breakdown of the hard tissue on the outer surface of the tooth, therefore it can cause the tooth to form a hole or soft cavity, you will need to take advice from your dentist as you would not want this to get worse. In the case of holes or soft cavities appearing in one of your teeth, then filling may be required at your dentist if not solvable by other means. Again take advice, but to avoid this, brush and floss regularly and a dentist check up at least twice a year.
Aha! Now I understand why my little brother has a lot of tooth decay. He eats every now and then and even eats my own food. Maybe that's the reason why dentists (Hendersonville, TN-based) were no longer surprise my brother's decaying teeth.
ReplyDeleteOur Hendersonville dentist still gave him hope through cleaning and filling.