BEST Toothbrush
Let’s discuss the best types of toothbrush. The best toothbrush is the bristles. What kind of bristles do you want? You always want to use soft bristles. Here’s the thing about tooth brushing, harder is not better, and that goes for both the bristles and the pressure you’re using with your hand while you brush. If you’ve been using a medium or hard, or firm toothbrush, we would say immediately throw them away but don’t waste them. You can still use them to clean your sinks and items around your house, but stop using them on your teeth. The best toothbrush to use in your mouth is a soft-bristled toothbrush. And the best way to use it is with gentle pressure.
Unfortunately, many of our patients tend to think that hard bristles are better, and many patients also tend to be super aggressive and overzealous with their brushing technique. They get it. They used to have that mindset, too, thinking that the harder they brush, the cleaner their teeth will get.
Although your teeth are the hardest substance in your body. Your gums are not. Brushing too hard and or using a hard toothbrush will cause your gums to start pulling back away from your tooth. And over time, people who brush too hard or use a hard toothbrush can give themselves scum recession. This is when your gums pull away from your tooth, exposing the root, which leads to tooth sensitivity. And also, in some cases, hard tooth brushing can cause enamel abrasion. This is when notches are worn into the sides of your teeth. So to prevent all of this from happening, you need to switch to a soft or an extra soft toothbrush right away. And only apply gentle pressure just enough to make your tissue blanch.
Dental Damage and Aggressive Tooth Brushing
If you’re not sure if you’re using the correct pressure, ask your dental provider at your next dental cleaning. They will examine if you have any signs of aggressive tooth brushing on your gums and or teeth. In addition, if you decide to invest in an electric toothbrush, is great electric toothbrushes are great because they do the work for you. You have to remember to simply hold it in place
and allow it to do the work for you. Sometimes people brush with an electric toothbrush. How they would brush with a regular toothbrush, and that is not right.
Breaking an aggressive tooth brushing habit can be quite a challenge, but you can get there, as we write.
how to hold your toothbrush properly
A soft-bristled toothbrush, and we would only hold it with our pointer finger and thumb, whereas when we brushed really hard, we would grip we would use my full hand grip after doing that for a while brushing with the two fingers. We’re now able to hold our toothbrush with our whole hand again. But we still repeatedly tell ourselves in our mind to be gentle, be soft, when we brush. We sometimes kind of feel like we’re meditating when we’re brushing all relaxed and slow around each tooth. If you are someone who already has gum recession, you need to start using a soft toothbrush and gentle pressure immediately. And if you’re someone who does not have gum recession, now’s the time to do the same to prevent it. Gum recession could lead to all your teeth being sensitive to gold which is not fun.
In conclusion, remember to always use a soft toothbrush, and if you aren’t sure which soft toothbrush is best for your lifestyle, the best person to ask is your dentist or dental hygienist. (Read More about Proper Oral Hygiene and Dental Care)
Where they can recommend the best products for your mouth, dentistry is not a size fits but in general soft toothbrushes are the way to prevent gum recession and enamel abrasion. The harder you scrub is terrible for your gums.
Although your teeth are the hardest substance in your body. Your gums are not. Brushing too hard and or using a hard toothbrush will cause your gums to start pulling back away from your tooth. And over time, people who brush too hard or use a hard toothbrush can give themselves scum recession. This is when your gums pull away from your tooth, exposing the root, which leads to tooth sensitivity. And also, in some cases, hard tooth brushing can cause enamel abrasion. This is when notches are worn into the sides of your teeth. So to prevent all of this from happening, you need to switch to a soft or an extra soft toothbrush right away. And only apply gentle pressure just enough to make your tissue blanch.
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Types of Toothbrush
A toothbrush is a crucial tool to fight against dental diseases like gum problems and cavities. there are different types of toothbrushes on the market, such as:
1- Manual Toothbrush
The most common toothbrush available in our homes is the manual toothbrush. The four primary formats of manual toothbrushes are bristle hardness, head shape, bristle pattern, and handle design.
2- Electric Toothbrush
Electric toothbrushes are fantastic for your teeth and, generally speaking. They do a better job than manual toothbrushes. That’s not to say that manual brushes don’t work well too. It’s just that electric toothbrushes make the job easier. they’re better able to loosen plaque
from the surfaces of your teeth and with their built-in timers. You’ll be able to ensure that you’re brushing for the recommended two minutes.
3- Interdental Brush
an interdental also called an interproximal brush, is a small brush typically disposable either supplied with a reusable angled plastic handle or an integral handle used for cleaning between teeth and between the wires of dental braces and the teeth.
4- Sulkabrush
It is explicitly used to clean along the gum line adjacent to the teeth. The bristles are usually shaped in a pointed arrow pattern to allow closer adaptation to the gums.
A silk brush is ideal for cleaning specific challenging to reach areas
such as between crowns, bridgework and crowded teeth.
5- Ionic Toothbrush
ionic toothbrushes are types of toothbrushes in which, instead of using friction and sound. The plaque is removed by changing the polarity of the tooth surfaces from negative to positive. Plaque material is effectively excreted by the teeth and negatively picked up with charged toothbrush bristles. This type of toothbrush aims to improve the control of microbial plaque to a great extent.
6- Audio Toothbrush
some ultrasound technologies have been combined with electrical designs in the past, but this is the first time that only ultrasound technology has been used, and there is no need to move the toothbrush. This toothbrush generates 86 million alternating sound waves per minute and uses only these waves to clean the teeth.
7- Ecological Toothbrushes
They are toothbrushes made using biodegradable materials such as wooden handles, bristles of bamboo, pig bristles, and or replaceable heads. They try to avoid plastic which increases pollution.
Since most of the people living today use the commonly available toothbrush made of plastic.
every time we replace our toothbrushes, the pollution increases. The ecological toothbrush is being given a lot of push to conserve our nature. These are some of the most common toothbrushes available in the market.
