Have you Brushing Your Teeth Properly?
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
On 12 September 2009 At last, the world community commemorates the Day of Dental and Oral Health World. In Indonesia itself, the event cooperation Dentists Association of Indonesia and PT. Unilever is exploited by distributing leaflets containing detailed information on dental health in HI and Bundaran Senayan, Jakarta.
“I think people have a lot of regular brushing, but most are not practicing brushing your teeth properly. Thus, the result is not optimal,” said drg. Rini Zaura Anggraeni, Chairman PDGI in a press conference Day Dental and Oral Health World, at the Hotel Nikko Jakarta, 11 September 2009 last.
This is evident from the research Basic Health (Basic Health Research Indonesia) in 2007 that in Indonesia, 91.1% of people brush my teeth every day, but only 7.3% of all who followed the instructions to brush his teeth in the morning after breakfast and evening before bed.
Dipraktekannya not brushing properly causing cavities cases whose numbers are still very high in Indonesia. In fact, 72.1% of the population of Indonesia has a cavity problem and 46.5% of them do not care for cavities. This would have a negative impact not only on the teeth and mouth health, but also a whole body kesahtan.
Effects of cavities include the entry of bacteria that cause cavities pain extraordinary and bad breath. In addition, if the cavities are in a state of chronic food can have an effect on the health of other organs like the heart and brain. For that, from now on get used to brush teeth after eating, do not let the rest of the food stuck in a long time on your teeth because it would trigger hole (caries) of tooth.
All you need to know, there are several different ways of brushing teeth.
- First, you should brush your teeth do not move too fast and hard, because it can damage gum tissue and tooth layer.
- Both brushing teeth should be done systematically, there are no leftovers behind. Check out the right movement:
a. Vertical movement. Direction of movement to brush up and down in the upper and lower jaws closed. Then, continue with the movement to brush up and down in an open mouth.
b. Horizontal movement. Movement direction brush back and forth from bukal and lingual surfaces (the surface facing the teeth of the cheek). Rubbing motion on the field known as chewing brush scrub. It’s easy to do and in accordance with the form of chewing surface anatomy. Combination vertical-horizontal movements, when done should be very careful because it can cause gum recession or tooth abrasion layer.
c. Circular movements. In this way, simple movements, most recommended, efficient and reach all parts of the mouth. Fur brush is placed on the surface of the gums, far from the surface of chewing, hair brush tip led to the end of the root, the move slowly through the surface of the tooth so that the back of the brush head moves in a curve.
At the time the fur brush through the crown, almost upright position against the surface of the email. Repeat this movement until approximately 12 times so no one missed. This method can produce membersihan massages gums and leftovers in the area between the teeth.
