| How do you choose a toothbrush? |
| 2016/6/7 |
The choice of brush head can be appropriately small
First to buy a toothbrush to look at the size of the brush head. Many people who go to Japan to travel or live will notice, whether it is the hotel offers or supermarket sale of toothbrush, more than one third of the common toothbrush in China to 1/2. As a specialist, the experts also tend to recommend to the reader a small brush head of the toothbrush, childrens toothbrush is to be smaller. This is because the posterior region of small space of the mouth, a large brush head is difficult to enter the retromolar area, will be dead.
Dentists in do the treatment to the patient and always found by the tooth cleaning degree is poor, debris, plaque and tartar than other regions more. Brush head of the toothbrush can be flexible in the mouth, can reach all parts of the teeth, it is not easy to leave the health of the dead.
Of course, the size of the brush head should vary from person to person, but also can not blindly pursue small, need to consider the size of the mouth, mouth opening degree and other factors. American Dental Association recommends that the adult toothbrush should be: head length of about 2.54 - 3.18 cm, width of about 0.79 - 0.95 cm, 2 - 4 rows of brush hair. But adults can also choose the brush head 2.3 cm long, 0.8 cm wide childrens toothbrush.
Ordinary people should choose a soft toothbrush
The shape of the brush head is square, diamond shape, the arrangement of the brush hair is smooth, wavy or V shape, etc., as long as the correct use can effectively clean the teeth.
As for the bristles of the toothbrush in a soft, hard toothbrush and toothbrush in the. A soft bristled toothbrush, has the advantages of small damage to the teeth and gums, the disadvantage is the thicker plaque is not completely removed, cleaning efficiency is not high enough. Although the tooth cleaning effect is good, but the tooth wear and damage is also larger, brushing teeth too hard when there will be the risk of damage to the gums and even teeth.
Recommendations --
Ordinary people use a soft toothbrush;
People who have the habit of smoking, drinking coffee and tea drinking, if the teeth are pigmentation, can use the hard hair toothbrush;
Brush hair of a childs toothbrush is softer than that of an adult toothbrush.
In addition, we must pay attention to the brush without sanding after treatment. Brush hair in the cross cutting, if not through the grinding process, easy to cause gum damage due to sharp edges. The sanding bristles Moyuan, can prevent the damage to the gums, the protective effect is stronger. Buy a new toothbrush, the first hand to touch the end of the brush hair, see there is no sharp, burr, etc..
After each brushing, the toothbrush should be washed, the brush head up into the cup, placed in a ventilated and dry place. Is generally believed that the brush hair deformation should be replaced, but if the brush hair without obvious deformation, about three months should also be replaceable toothbrush, change because of the toothbrush is used for a certain period of time after, brush hair aging, degeneration, elasticity and hardness occurred. In addition, the use of time is too long, the bristles accumulate bacteria, adverse oral health.
Hotel toothbrush is not recommended
We travel or travel, to save often use disposable toothbrush provided by the hotel. Experts, he specifically noted that the hotels toothbrush, most of the hotel provides a very poor quality of the toothbrush, and even less than the best shops to sell the cheapest toothbrush. He suggested that we should be able to go out when the best toothbrush, do not use the hotels toothbrush, but not to bring home the toothbrush to use the hotel. |
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