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Leon58

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Good morning and you get up and get set to start every day automatically by brushing your teeth. You brush each time not giving a second thought as to why you do so? Brushing ones teeth is the first and foremost Teeth cleaning programme.

Brush with its long handle for holding it and its soft bristles to brush out plaque from tooth surface, is the single appliance used in brushing. Proper brushing takes at least 2 minutes and should be executed in the following steps-

? Firstly clean the outer surface of your upper and then lower teeth.
? Next clean the inner surface of the above cleaned teeth (i.e. those teeth whose upper surface has been already cleaned).
? But upper and inner surfaces are not all, there?s the most used surface remaining which is the chewing surface. Cleaning the chewing surface should be done next.

With this cleaning on teeth is done but the chances of bad breath remains. So after brushing check your breath and if it smells bad then clean your teeth to get fresher breath.

Still there are rear dental line areas and deep pit around the tooth areas where food gets trapped undisturbed by brush bristles. To makeover these problems of brushes devices like tooth pick, tooth irrigators or others have been implemented in alternative cleaning techniques.

Full fledged brushing near the tender gum line is not possible. For this floss in flossing should be used. Driving the floss near the gum line and between teeth is easy and provides good finish.

Let your day start with brushing and flossing to end with healthy and good feeling teeth.
 

Saint Nick

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thanks for that informative post leon. brushing my teeth will definitely help me do better in my workout.

:D
 

wwswimming

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Wavy Gravy has a great stock stump speech about
brushing your teeth. when he was in his 20's, he
didn't brush his teeth because it was "too establishment",
or something like that.

how he dealt with the bad breath, i have no idea.
how his girlfriend dealt with the bad breath, i have no idea.

i don't know the whole story. there's like 30 teeth
to deal with. anyway, all or most of them fell out.
 

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I say great first post! :thumbsup: This is the Health&Fitness forum, after all. Periodontal bacteria may increase the chance of heart attacks and heart disease.
"It is like setting up a garbage dump on the edge of a river. You wouldn't be surprised if the lake downstream ended up polluted with the garbage from the dump," said Vincent J. Iacono, DMD and president of the American Academy of Periodontology. "A patient's bloodstream acts very much like the river in this analogy, in that it carries the bacteria from the periodontal plaques, possibly 'polluting' the arteries of the heart with periodontal bacteria, causing inflammation of the arteries which may lead to a heart attack. This potential effect of periodontal bacteria further supports the need for periodic deep cleanings to enhance overall health and wellbeing."