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Protect Your Smile: Yellowing

Few things are more embarrassing than flashing a smile and discovering that your mouth is full of discoloured, yellow teeth. Even if you take care to clean them carefully, people are automatically going to assume that you make no effort to take care of your dental hygiene. This is undoubtedly going to have a major impact on your confidence levels and make you want to avoid showing your teeth at all. Luckily there are plenty of natural remedies that you can use in order to whiten your teeth quickly and easily. Even something as simple as rubbing a mix of lemon juice and salt on your teeth twice a day for a couple of weeks can make a remarkable amount of difference to the whiteness of your teeth.

Cracked or Missing Teeth

Sometimes accidents happen and you can end up with a cracked tooth. Despite the fact this has nothing to do with the care that you take over your teeth, it’s certainly going to be a little bit embarrassing, not to mention painful!. The same goes for any missing teeth as well. It’s hard to shake the classic image of yokels chewing on corn and spitting into a bucket when you see someone missing one of their teeth. Dental implants are undoubtedly the best method for dealing with this problem. You can find out more about the process of getting dental implants here. Not only are dental implants safe and convenient, but they also help to promote the health of your existing teeth as well.

Protect Your Smile: Crooked Teeth

Many people consider crooked teeth to be their worst feature. It’s the kind of thing that can have a lifelong impact on someone’s confidence, keeping them from doing many of the things that they really want to. If you never had braces when you were younger then don’t worry, there are plenty of ways you can help to straighten your teeth as an adult. Between clear aligners, palatal expanders, and lingual braces, there are plenty of different options to help straighten out your teeth as effectively as possible. To find out the best solution for you, it’s a good idea to talk to your dentist and work out a plan together.

Far too many people end up taking their teeth for granted. Far too often people only really pay attention to the health of their teeth when something is wrong. To protect your smile the best thing that you can do is to make sure that you’re taking the best possible care of your teeth all the time to avoid something going wrong in the first place.

Since 2012, the NHS has spent over £165 million on teeth removal in a hospital environment for patients of all ages. That’s an amazing amount of money!

In 2017, over 42, 000 children were admitted for a general anaesthetic procedure, to extract teeth that were affected by decay. The issue also touches adults. The most common cause of tooth decay, in the UK, is our increasingly high consumption of sugar. Ultimately, with 170 operations a day to remove teeth in patients aged 18 or under, there’s no denying that the UK is going through a dramatic oral health crisis. We all need to ensure that we help our children develop positive habits, both in the bathroom and in the kitchen if we want to help reduce some of these teeth removal operations.

Mouth Hygiene isn’t Optional

First of all, it’s never too early to introduce a healthy routine. Good oral health is detrimental to your well-being and your lifestyle. Ultimately, we all know what causes tooth decay: sugar. Indeed, sugar feeds the bacteria in your mouth and increases the risk of plaque formation, which is when your teeth can get damaged. Consequently, it’s essential to brush your teeth at least twice a day to make sure that bacteria can’t affect your smile. Floss should be a daily occurrence too as it eliminates the food that might otherwise get stuck between your teeth and lead to plaque formation.

Too Ashamed to Smile?

Unfortunately, cavities can still happen, especially if you’ve developed bad habits in the past. When plaque bacteria have softened the enamel, a hole can appear. A dentist can help you to identify the best treatment for your problem. In most cases, filling the cavity is sufficient. However, if the root is infected, the treatment could be extensive and require extraction. If this is the case, you need to act quickly. You can cover the extracted area with a veneer solution such as Instasmile, for instance. Tooth or teeth removal is the last resort. Keeping on top of your dental checkup could save your tooth and you money.

Don’t Wait for the First Tooth

Failure to educate children about the importance of oral hygiene is one of the leading causes of extraction in young patients. Indeed, while sugar can provide a favourable terrain for plaque formation, it could be prevented through tooth brushing. But, you need to introduce a mouth health routine even before your child has their first tooth. Indeed, helping to keep the gums clean in babies and toddlers can prevent gum recession in older years. Gum recession not only exposes the teeth to bacteria but it can also aggravate the impact of tooth decay, leading to tooth loss.

Avoiding Teeth Removal: In Summary

Clearly, we have some serious dental issues here in the UK. Sugar isn’t the only thing that causes problems obviously but it has been identified as a major contributor. Advice states that the best way to deal with this growing issue, especially in terms of avoiding teeth removal is to teach children early about good oral hygiene habits and to help them maintain their new and important routines. This is something we’ve worked really hard on with the boys but there is always more work to do.
On that note, if you have any top tips for boosting children’s tooth/oral care routines let me know by commenting below.

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