Many of us don't take very keen care of our oral hygiene. Okay, we do brush our teeth before going out, but only because not doing so would make us 'smell' and therefore look bad to others. Therefore beyond the morning toothbrush - which many of us do just because it is part of social etiquette, we don't really bother about oral hygiene. When we are asked, we will, of course, cite that morning toothbrush as the step we take towards ensuring oral hygiene. Yet the truth of the matter is that there is a lot more to oral hygiene, than just the morning toothbrush.
But why care about oral hygiene, one asks. Isn't caring too much about oral hygiene just being 'sissy' - fussing too much about nothing?
Well, in order to understand why you taking care of oral hygiene is worth the effort involved in it, it would be a great idea to examine the dangers you face, if you opt to neglect your dental health.
One obvious danger you face, if you opt to neglect your oral health, is that of suffering from teeth infections. What happens, in most of these teeth infections, is that harmful bacteria make an abode in your mouth - on finding your mouth to be a hospitable place for them, thanks to the food remains therein. The problem with these bacteria is that while they feed on the food remains that you fail to clean up, they also tend to eat into the tooth itself, in an effort to make for themselves a permanent settlement. Some are in fact known to eat into tooth tissue. But whatever the case, their continued presence inside your teeth means that you stand to lose the teeth.
What is worth noting, with regard to teeth loss as a result of failing to take good care of your oral hygiene is that it tends to take place with a very short period of infection. Once these bacteria have started their destructive work, there is usually no easy way of put paid to it. Within six months of infection, you could find that the only way your tooth can be saved is by having it drilled, and then filled. Within a year of infection, you could find that the only thing that can be done, to avoid further damage to your overall health, is to have the infected tooth extracted: which is effectively an amputation of an essential part of your body.
Of course, these issues of teeth infection, teeth drilling, teeth filling, teeth extraction and so on are not just medical issues for the dentist to deal with. They affect you, for in most cases, they mean that you have to bear a lot of pain: for the simple reason that you chose to neglect your dental hygiene.
Failure to take your oral hygiene seriously also means that you are prone to bad odor (which you are likely to be insensitive to yourself), and which could mess up with your social life considerably.
But why care about oral hygiene, one asks. Isn't caring too much about oral hygiene just being 'sissy' - fussing too much about nothing?
Well, in order to understand why you taking care of oral hygiene is worth the effort involved in it, it would be a great idea to examine the dangers you face, if you opt to neglect your dental health.
One obvious danger you face, if you opt to neglect your oral health, is that of suffering from teeth infections. What happens, in most of these teeth infections, is that harmful bacteria make an abode in your mouth - on finding your mouth to be a hospitable place for them, thanks to the food remains therein. The problem with these bacteria is that while they feed on the food remains that you fail to clean up, they also tend to eat into the tooth itself, in an effort to make for themselves a permanent settlement. Some are in fact known to eat into tooth tissue. But whatever the case, their continued presence inside your teeth means that you stand to lose the teeth.
What is worth noting, with regard to teeth loss as a result of failing to take good care of your oral hygiene is that it tends to take place with a very short period of infection. Once these bacteria have started their destructive work, there is usually no easy way of put paid to it. Within six months of infection, you could find that the only way your tooth can be saved is by having it drilled, and then filled. Within a year of infection, you could find that the only thing that can be done, to avoid further damage to your overall health, is to have the infected tooth extracted: which is effectively an amputation of an essential part of your body.
Of course, these issues of teeth infection, teeth drilling, teeth filling, teeth extraction and so on are not just medical issues for the dentist to deal with. They affect you, for in most cases, they mean that you have to bear a lot of pain: for the simple reason that you chose to neglect your dental hygiene.
Failure to take your oral hygiene seriously also means that you are prone to bad odor (which you are likely to be insensitive to yourself), and which could mess up with your social life considerably.
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