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Aside from enhancing our looks when we smile, our teeth are the primary part of our digestive system that helps to change into smaller pieces the food we eat, making it not difficult for the stomach to perform its task. It is essential that we know how to take care of our teeth. However, most people take oral and dental hygiene lightly, only rushing to the dentist if they have dental caries and need a filling. It is advisable top visit the dentist twice a year, to have our teeth examined and correct defects or conditions at the earliest possible time.

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The leading health problem for school-age children is dental decay. Dental care may help prevent many of these problems if started early. A child should visit a dentist by his or her first birthday and have an orthodontic exam by the age of 7.

Primary teeth play an important role to help guide the development of permanent teeth. They should be kept healthy until they are lost naturally. When they are lost too early, the space that is left must be maintained by a “space maintainer” to ensure that there will be enough room for the permanent teeth when they erupt. Maintaining your primary teeth with good nutrition and to chew properly is important for pronunciation and speech development. This will also help your child to feel good about the way they look to others.

Missing a tooth can trigger your teeth to realignment, your jawbone to reduce in size, make you look elder and have an effect on your confidence. Nobel Smile suggests teeth improvement and substitution with the use of an all-ceramic dental crown or bridge, leaving away from porcelain fused to metal (PFM) and declaring farewell to gray lines because of metal. Procera all-ceramic resolution are bio-compatible and do not produce allergic reactions. Since there is no metal, no temperature feeling or metal flavor is encountered. In the present day, implant crowns and bridges, and dental veneers and dental crowns is made of Procera. They can be finished to flawlessly go with the shade of your teeth, making it unfeasible to tell your Procera and genuine teeth separately.

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Brush your teeth after every meal, so the dentist�s advice says. But, of course, not a lot of us, whether we admit it or not, get to comply with this basic regimen of hygiene, at least regularly. In the morning after breakfast before we leave home for school or the office and (/or) in the evening after dinner before we go to bed: it is only this far�or, better yet, near�that our habit, or lack of it, takes us. These days, it is sad that only a few of us find or make the effort to include after lunch to brush.

It is a fact that sugary drinks such as soda and juices can in fact damage the teeth. Plaques will form and the sugar substance can seep in the in-betweens of the teeth. There is a recent study that showed the risks of sugary drinks to 3 and 5 year olds, and the researchers found out that in 3 year olds, 31 of every 100 kids had visible plaques on their teeth and 7 out of 100 had cavity. 3 year olds who drank sugary drinks before going to bed were 8 times more at risk than those who don’t. The 5 year olds on the other hand showed that 37 of every 100 kids had plaque and 31 of every 100 had at least 1 cavity. 5 year olds who drink sugary drinks before going to bed will were at risk 2 -3 times more at risk than those who don’t.

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Almost 3 out of 10 old people believe that they do have bad breath. This is result of the research conducted in Kirikkale University in Turkey. What they do recommend is for the elderly to brush their teeth often and drinking lots of water to help them reduce their dry mouth. The researchers found out that most elderly brush their teeth once (or less) a day, and other factors too like wearing dentures (not properly cleaned), smoking and having less education contributed to their bad breaths. The researchers also discovered that 3 out of 4 who claimed that they had bad breath also had dry mouths. Taste problems too were rampant but it is more evident on older people wearing dentures.

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Have you had braces before? Or perhaps, are you wearing one right now? Dentists and orthodontics normally suggest that people with crooked teeth should have braces, but recent studies show that braces can in fact inflict damage on the gums of the person. Yes, you may have straighter teeth but this does not mean that your oral condition is healthy. The forced movement of the teeth to make it aligned poses some problems in the gum area of the patient’s mouth. The researchers found out that those who have had braces before were candidates of receding gum line, that is, the gums were pulled back from the teeth.

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Stress can be very harmful to a person’s health. There are a lot of illnesses and diseases associated with stress from a simple migraine to heart attack, these illnesses can be experienced by the person who undergoes stress. But aside from these, new studies show that periodontal disease can also be linked with stress. Researchers from the University College of London studied a total of 34,000 people and found out that those who have stress related “wear and tear” on their bodies were most likely to get periodontal diseases and other stress related diseases. Aside from these, they also looked at the income level of the people and the allostatic loads of the subjects, that is, the adapting mechanism of the person’s body to stress.

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Yes, brushing your teeth, flossing the in-betweens and other dental care procedures can result to great, healthy teeth. However, recent studies show that even though you brush your teeth often and do your other oral hygiene rituals religiously, you are still in risk of having cavities—if your genes say so. Yes, believe it or not, it’s in the genes. Researchers have studied twins to get conclude whether cavities are something biological in nature, however, during the course of their study, they found out that there is also another type of gene that prevents the person to have cavities (lucky you, if you have this!). These genes have something to do with the person’s saliva and food preferences.

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