While children and young people always better to their oral hygiene care is the dental health of adults in middle age badly.
This is the result of a study by the University of Freiburg clinic under the direction of Prof. Hellwig, was published in 1999. More than 90 percent of the participants were gum inflammation and bleeding gums with a high proportion of dental caries at the root diagnosed.
The KKH Commercial health insurance has the opportunity in its members magazine four basic rules for dental hygiene to formulate the so-called four pillars of prevention.
It is recommended…
…At least twice daily, morning after breakfast and evening before bedtime, to clean the teeth;
Sweet… largely to avoid the potential sugar drinks to take and varied and fibre food to eat, to stimulate vigorous chewing;
…Regularly and in sufficient quantity Fluoride (fluoridhaltige toothpastes or preparations) to apply because they protect against tooth decay among others;
…Twice a year to the dentist to go so small mutilated bodies detected at an early stage and large damage does not even arise.
