Little known way to improve your health and save money....
Today's Post: Tuesday, 3-23-2010
Important introductory note:
You may have read the posts I’ve posted on this topic before. In addition, some of you may be familiar with the basic info as well from other sources.
But there is new information in this post that will pay you to read that you may not know or have gotten out of the habit of using.
Even though I was familiar with this topic and using the information daily, I’d missed a couple of key points that made me far less effective -- and that it may also benefit you to know. So if you already are familiar with this topic, scan through to the new information!
It might well double or triple the value of the information for you as it did for me!
I once believed, and many people still do, that the purpose of brushing your teeth is to clean the food off of them and that the purpose of flossing is to remove the food that is between your teeth that your toothbrush cannot reach.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. A full NINETY % of the value of brushing your teeth is caused by doing these two things correctly.
Doing it right saves you from paying very large dental bills, horribly bad breath, having to buy and wear dentures AND removes a major cause of heart disease, heart attacks, and possibly strokes, senility, and erectile dysfunction.
It seems that by cleaning and removing food gunk from your GUMS and the area where they join your teeth at the gumline -- which keeps them healthy, you can completely avoid all that junk!
Brushing and flossing correctly prevents gum disease. And, gum disease is well worth the effort to avoid it.:
Gum disease causes very large dental bills to try to treat it, horribly bad breath, having to buy and wear dentures if it gets too bad because that causes your teeth to fall out. AND the bacteria in gum disease and the systemic inflammation from it combine to be a major cause of heart disease, heart attacks, and possibly strokes, senility, and erectile dysfunction. Yikes !!
Even better, keeping your gums healthy takes only a bit of extra daily effort added to brushing and flossing, particularly if you know how to do both of them right.
That’s a five-part process each of which takes just a few seconds to do.
(Three of the steps clean, protect, and stimulate your gums.)
1. Clean out the worst of the food pieces by vigorously rinsing your mouth with water, then using a toothpick or -- better, a Stimudent, a trademarked product that is safer and better shaped for the job, to get the biggest pieces of food from between your teeth - and then re-rinsing.
2. Floss in between your teeth AND have each part be a double-floss: also go down as far as you can on the bordering tooth on EACH side to clean its junction with your gums.
(If you just pop the floss up and down to clean out the pieces of food still trapped between your teeth, it does only 10 % as much for your gums. Until I went to our dental hygienist last time, that's all I was doing or knew to do.)
3. Put the toothpaste on your brush and brush the top or biting surface of your teeth. That cleans it and prevents tooth decay there also if you use a fluoride toothpaste. Do both top and bottom.
4. Then brush at the gumline inside and out and top and bottom. Since that's such an important step for cleaning the area in between your teeth and gums, I like to do it twice.
Here's the part that was new to me. As you do this, focus just a tiny bit on the gum side of the gumline instead of the middle AND angle your toothbrush AT your gum at a 45 degree angle. You angle the brush up when you do your top teeth and down when you do your bottom teeth. What that does is to ensure you massage your gums and clean the surface of your tooth just underneath your gum line by agitating the gum on top of it.
(I was just brushing at the gumline without aiming the toothbrush at my gums. Until I went to our dental hygienist last time, that's all I was doing or knew to do.)
5. Do a last pass top and bottom brushing of your gum itself above the gumline and while doing that brush the back of your ending tooth directly top and bottom on each side. Also during this step as you go by your two top, front teeth in the center of your mouth, your gumline is higher so give that place some extra brushing as it's easy to miss on the 4th part.
Then do your final rinse with water and you're done.
If you include the parts that I've highlighted in bold, you'll be able to feel an invigorated and stimulated feeling in your gums. Until recently I wasn't doing those two things. And, I can tell you first hand that you can FEEL the difference if you do them right!
By the way, if you’re rushed, you can skip part one and only do part 4 once instead of twice and, if you are doing each part right, you can zip through each part.
Today's Post: Tuesday, 3-23-2010
Important introductory note:
You may have read the posts I’ve posted on this topic before. In addition, some of you may be familiar with the basic info as well from other sources.
But there is new information in this post that will pay you to read that you may not know or have gotten out of the habit of using.
Even though I was familiar with this topic and using the information daily, I’d missed a couple of key points that made me far less effective -- and that it may also benefit you to know. So if you already are familiar with this topic, scan through to the new information!
It might well double or triple the value of the information for you as it did for me!
I once believed, and many people still do, that the purpose of brushing your teeth is to clean the food off of them and that the purpose of flossing is to remove the food that is between your teeth that your toothbrush cannot reach.
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. A full NINETY % of the value of brushing your teeth is caused by doing these two things correctly.
Doing it right saves you from paying very large dental bills, horribly bad breath, having to buy and wear dentures AND removes a major cause of heart disease, heart attacks, and possibly strokes, senility, and erectile dysfunction.
It seems that by cleaning and removing food gunk from your GUMS and the area where they join your teeth at the gumline -- which keeps them healthy, you can completely avoid all that junk!
Brushing and flossing correctly prevents gum disease. And, gum disease is well worth the effort to avoid it.:
Gum disease causes very large dental bills to try to treat it, horribly bad breath, having to buy and wear dentures if it gets too bad because that causes your teeth to fall out. AND the bacteria in gum disease and the systemic inflammation from it combine to be a major cause of heart disease, heart attacks, and possibly strokes, senility, and erectile dysfunction. Yikes !!
Even better, keeping your gums healthy takes only a bit of extra daily effort added to brushing and flossing, particularly if you know how to do both of them right.
That’s a five-part process each of which takes just a few seconds to do.
(Three of the steps clean, protect, and stimulate your gums.)
1. Clean out the worst of the food pieces by vigorously rinsing your mouth with water, then using a toothpick or -- better, a Stimudent, a trademarked product that is safer and better shaped for the job, to get the biggest pieces of food from between your teeth - and then re-rinsing.
2. Floss in between your teeth AND have each part be a double-floss: also go down as far as you can on the bordering tooth on EACH side to clean its junction with your gums.
(If you just pop the floss up and down to clean out the pieces of food still trapped between your teeth, it does only 10 % as much for your gums. Until I went to our dental hygienist last time, that's all I was doing or knew to do.)
3. Put the toothpaste on your brush and brush the top or biting surface of your teeth. That cleans it and prevents tooth decay there also if you use a fluoride toothpaste. Do both top and bottom.
4. Then brush at the gumline inside and out and top and bottom. Since that's such an important step for cleaning the area in between your teeth and gums, I like to do it twice.
Here's the part that was new to me. As you do this, focus just a tiny bit on the gum side of the gumline instead of the middle AND angle your toothbrush AT your gum at a 45 degree angle. You angle the brush up when you do your top teeth and down when you do your bottom teeth. What that does is to ensure you massage your gums and clean the surface of your tooth just underneath your gum line by agitating the gum on top of it.
(I was just brushing at the gumline without aiming the toothbrush at my gums. Until I went to our dental hygienist last time, that's all I was doing or knew to do.)
5. Do a last pass top and bottom brushing of your gum itself above the gumline and while doing that brush the back of your ending tooth directly top and bottom on each side. Also during this step as you go by your two top, front teeth in the center of your mouth, your gumline is higher so give that place some extra brushing as it's easy to miss on the 4th part.
Then do your final rinse with water and you're done.
If you include the parts that I've highlighted in bold, you'll be able to feel an invigorated and stimulated feeling in your gums. Until recently I wasn't doing those two things. And, I can tell you first hand that you can FEEL the difference if you do them right!
By the way, if you’re rushed, you can skip part one and only do part 4 once instead of twice and, if you are doing each part right, you can zip through each part.
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