Cleaning is a good way to oral health, through regular teeth cleaning, not only can thoroughly remove plaque and calculus on the teeth, periodontal tissue to keep health, prevention and treatment of periodontal disease, and teeth cleaning easily found tiny subtler dental disease, such as more hidden cavities, thus achieve the goal of early found early treatment.
What person does the patient need to know to wash a tooth?
Anyone who needs to remove supergingival calculus, soft scale and plaque can wash teeth.
For example, healthy people without periodontal disease can be prevented by cleaning their teeth.
People who have periodontal disease, in the basic treatment period and maintenance period need to wash teeth;
In addition, for some patients who need orthodontic, restorative treatment or surgical treatment, they also need to wash their teeth first to ensure the cleaning of the mouth, and then proceed to the next treatment.
But for leukemia, hemophilia and other blood disease patients, it is not appropriate to wash teeth;
Patients with cardiac pacemakers, hepatitis B surface antigen positive and other infectious diseases may not use ultrasonic teeth cleaning, but can use manual cleaning.
How often should I wash it?
Because plaque is constantly forming, cleaning is not a one-time thing and needs to be done regularly.
The average person should wash once every six months to a year;
For periodontal disease is more serious, oral hygiene habits are not good, such as smoking or toothbrushing effect is not good, 3 months to half a year to wash once;
Periodontal health, and can do effective brushing of young people, can be 1-2 years to wash once.
Will it hurt to wash your teeth?
The process of cleaning is usually a little sore, and if there is a lot of inflammation or if there are a lot of stones in the tooth that have not been washed for a long time, there may be some bleeding.
After cleaning the bleeding situation will generally disappear slowly in a day or two, if you can maintain good oral hygiene, brushing before the bleeding phenomenon is mostly in a week or so automatically disappear.
If bleeding continues locally, you should have your doctor check for periodontal disease or residual stones deep inside the gums.
