Brushing Your Teeth
Keeping your teeth and gums healthy is very important to your overall health. The more plaque you can keep from entering your blood stream, the better. And the initial gateway for plaque is, of course, your mouth. Brushing and flossing are effective, but sonic toothbrushes seem to do an even better job than standard brushing alone. This article explains how sonic toothbrushes work.
Plaque Formation
When food particles combine with your natural saliva and remain in place, plaque forms. Once the plaque exists, it gives a home to destructive acids that will start to eat away at your teeth and gums.
Brushing your teeth is one of the primary ways of removing food particles from your mouth, stopping the acid growth process all together. By flossing, you keep plaque from forming inside your gums, which are generally harder to keep clean.
Sonic Brushing
Normal brushing by hand usually encompasses about 300 strokes per minute. Anything beyond that, your hands may get tired and you might not get all the plaque off of your teeth without additional help from a mouth rinse. But sonic toothbrushes can do the equivalent of 30,000 strokes per minute. You can remove a lot of plaque in a hurry at that speed.
But it's beyond the strokes per minute that make sonic brushes so effective. Sonic tooth brushes are also able to get rid of plaque deep between the teeth. Since the vibrations are so great, sonic brushes also agitate the natural cleaning fluids (such as saliva) around your teeth. The sonic brush moves so fast that it creates minuscule bubbles that push out dental plaque that may be lying just underneath the gum line.
These fluids not only push away the plaque, they also dilute and move those bacteria-produced acids. This fluid movement and plaque removal can happen without the sonic brush even touching the enamel surface. According to research provided by a sonic tooth brush maker, 76% of plaque can be removed in 15 seconds if the brush is held 1/8 of an inch from the teeth.
So if you are looking to have a more effective dental cleaning at home, you may want to look into purchasing a sonic tooth brush. You may have to pay up to 10 times the amount of your regular tooth brush, but the health benefits could outweigh those costs in the long run.
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