Posts Tagged ‘Oral Health Care’

Against Bad Breath with Parsley and Lemon

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Halitosis is a lesser evil that often does not affect the sufferer, but may annoy another person and be very damaging over personal relationships.

If you suffer from this problem, you can fight it by following these tips:

- Brush your tongue, like brushing our teeth
- Parsley and mint: Chewing fresh leaves of parsley or mint for 10 or 15 minutes
- Lemon: chew a piece of lemon peel for a couple of minutes after meals
- Baking: rinsing the mouth after brushing with a little warm water and a pinch of baking soda Read the rest of this entry »

How to Prevent Bad Breath for Along Day

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Twelve hours without bad breath?

The death struggle against bad breath – halitosis – has given birth to chewing gum and mouthwash to fun tongue cleaners. The latest in this matter is TriOral, a substance that liberates us for twelve hours of the smelly bacteria.

There is no human (except infants) can maintain for several hours fresh breath without little help from a toothpaste, a mouth or a timely wipe gum. And the bad morning breath, no doubt, no one pound!.

Responsible for this whiff we sometimes betrays the worst are the millions of bacteria that swarm in our mouth, especially on the surface of the tongue that is where most of it. Not in vain in the range range of alternatives to improve the breath, the tongue cleaner holds a special place.

Vital differences

Significantly, one thing is bad breath naturally occurs in all after a few hours, and another thing is the bad breath that affects an ongoing basis. In the latter case the poor bearing the name of halitosis. In 90 percent of cases, halitosis comes from the mouth.

However, it also can be caused by the respiratory, digestive or due to systemic disease. Other causes of halitosis may be the cigarette, alcohol and even our kind of food.

How to Relieve Toothache?

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We give you a natural technique to relieve toothache.

You need: water, salt, ice, tomato plant acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin)

• Boil a cup of water with two tablespoons of salt. Soak a cloth in the infusion and Clip it on your face at high temperature to resist.

• If the above does not work, alternating hot and cold packs.

• If you have at hand a tomato plant, boil some leaves and make the water rinses of the infusion as hot as tolerated.

• If a pharmacy close to open, buy a bottle of liquid analgesic and apply a small amount with a cotton until you get your dentist treats you.

• You can place a piece of aspirin on the tooth affected, cover with cotton, and get temporary relief.
Toothache

Do not self-medicate or take any kind of pain that has not been prescribed by a specialist.

Visit as soon as possible to your dentist, because pain is a warning about a possible infection or a major dental problem.

High Recommendations for Oral Health Care III

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12. If the child permits, the dentist may apply a substance called “fissure sealants” that are liquids that are applied to the surfaces of the teeth, especially in the 8 molars that have erupted at 3 years. These fissures sealants plug cracks where bacteria are introduced that make up the cavities and is estimated to help avoid them by 95%.

13. The child must carry at least every 6 months to the dentist because many cavities are difficult to observe and less able to identify the parents. The dentist will continue to apply fluoride every 6 months and sealing of new parts that will erupt in the mouth of the child.

14. In a special child to the dentist views should be more straight. It is essential that the mother take the child to the clinic when undergoing a new treatment period or when you make a change in your medications, because this factor may be the beginning of a series of disturbances in the child’s mouth. Read the rest of this entry »

High Recommendations for Oral Health Care II

oral health care6. It never should reward giving sweets and / or treats, but they appreciate more a warm show of affection. Sweets or candy favor the formation of dental caries, which affects 95% of the population.

7. Cleaning the teeth after each feeding of drug needed, since most of the time these children take several medications a day and they may contain excessive amounts of sugar in their formula, the mother may think that that drug is harmless, but the truth is that this bathing several times a day with sugar children’s teeth.

8. It should not be given food using a fork that has previously been introduced into the mouth of the person who feeds him (to taste the food), before feeding the child. Tooth decay is a contagious disease.

9. Around 2 years old, you must submit a soft toothbrush (not necessarily with toothpaste), preferably with flexible handle to prevent accidents, to be trained in its use.

It will tell you very simple language what it is for the brush, telling him that he should use it as a broom to sweep the surface of the teeth. It is advisable to accompany their parents when they made their tooth brushing to them as role models. Read the rest of this entry »

High Recommendations for Oral Health Care I

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We send you some recommendations on oral health care of the “special patients”, meaning those who show them some alteration of their motor skills, sensory or psychological.

That we express in this collaboration particularly for patients referred children, conceptually valid for adult patients.

1. Parents or caregivers of these children are the most important for the child to always maintain optimum oral health. Their collaboration is even more important that all the work I can do the dentist. It is far better that the child never have cavities, having to take the office for a cure is already occurred.

2. The oral care of a child starts from before the first tooth erupts. You must pass a gauze soaked in cold water boiled, rubbing against your gums to remove any milk or food after every meal.

3. I will not let you fall asleep with the bottle placed in his mouth, because the sugar in milk promote the development of colonies of bacteria that cause dental caries. There is a painting called “baby bottle tooth decay” extremely destructive of the teeth, which occurs in these children who let them fall asleep with a bottle in his mouth.

4. Just the first tooth erupts, care should be even higher. You must be thoroughly cleaned with wet gauze. As go the other teeth erupt, they will do the same with them. The front of the mouth and also with those located at the bottom.

5. In children with cerebral palsy, it is necessary that the cleaning is done with gauze soaked in diluted hydrogen peroxide, because these children have a greater acidity in your saliva.