The benefit of brushing your teeth properly is that it reduces the risk of long-term diseases.
Along with this, your teeth and gums also become stronger. But, most of us do this work in the wrong way. At least this is what dental experts say. In this article, experts have been told how to brush your teeth properly. A study conducted in Sweden has shown that only one in ten people uses the technique of brushing teeth properly.
The British health insurance company Bupa (BUPA) conducted a survey on 2 thousand people in Britain. It came to light that more than half of the people did not know how to brush their teeth properly.
Josephine Hirschfeld, Associate Professor and Specialist in Restorative Dentistry at the University of Birmingham in the UK, has talked about this.
She said, “It is more likely that anyone who has not been told the correct way to brush by their dentist, brushes in the wrong way.” “In my experience, a large part of the population in any country will be of such people who will not know how to brush properly.” Well, this is not surprising, because there is a lot of information available about how you should brush your teeth. This confusion increases even more with the dental products available in the market.” These bacteria and other microorganisms keep growing continuously in everyone’s mouth, which can also be called plaque in common language. It is made up of about 700 types of bacteria. Hirschfeld says about this, “They stick to the teeth in the form of a sticky layer of plaque. They are not cleaned easily. They need to be cleaned by hand.”
So the most important place to remove them (bacteria) is not the teeth, but the gums. This is the place where bacteria easily infiltrate.
“Saying ‘brush your teeth’ is a wrong usage. Instead, it’s more accurate to say ‘think about brushing your gums’, because doing so will ‘clean the teeth’ on its own,” Hirschfeld says.