Because erroneous assumptions, habits that often do not realize the danger. Chewing gum containing xyltol for example, is considered good for oral health but it can trigger sore jaw.

There are also some bad habits that never even occurred to the danger. For example snacking at night, biting your nails and breathe through your mouth, even apparently trivial but also causes problems no less serious.

Here are seven habits that can lead to tooth decay.

1. Snacking at night
Compared to daytime, saliva production is reduced at night. Because one function of the saliva is clean teeth of food scraps, then snacked at night can easily cause tooth date. Research on this subject ever published in the journal Eating Behavior.

2. Drinking white wine
Some people avoid red wine because it directly leave stains on your teeth. But according to the president of the American Society of Dental Aesthetics is also the originator of the SuperSmile, Irwin Smeigel, white wine, it also puts other, more permanent problem.

“Though not cause stains, higher acidity of white wine and can damage tooth enamel. The damage is in the form of rough spots and grooves that make teeth more susceptible to staining when consuming food or drink other color,” said Smeigel.

3. Breathing through the mouth
Sometimes if gasping for glorious when exercising or working hard, people started to breathe through the mouth. This causes the saliva in the oral cavity is reduced. In fact, according dentist Texas, Anna Dees, another function of saliva is to maintain a layer of teeth to prevent decay.

4. Excessive gum chewing
Chewing gum actually has benefits, especially if the gum containing xylitol. These materials can help maintain health palate. However, if excessive, then the suffering is a part of temporomandibular or jaw joint connecting the skull bones. Excess pressure in that section can cause headaches, sore neck, face and ears.

5. Nail biting
Not only damage the nail itself, a bad habit that children often do this cause serious damage to the teeth and gums. Tooth root changing its form and then trigger gingivitis (gum inflammation), while increasing the risk of bruxism or tooth movement that is not desired, such as rattling during sleep.

6. Juice and soda drinking directly from cans or bottle
Sipped straight from the bottle or beverage packaging enlarge the potential contact with teeth. Sugars and acids that can make rapid tooth decay. This risk can be reduced by drinking a soda or juice through a straw positioned pipe leading to the back of the mouth.

7. Brushing teeth horizontally
The damage that occurs during horizontal brushing your teeth is eroded enamel. As a result, teeth become fragile, easily broken and infection. Among dentists generally recommend brushing vertical manner, with a soft brush to avoid damaging the enamel.

Dental plaque is made up of invisible masses of harmful germs that are the mouth and stick to the teeth. Some types of plaque cause tooth decay. Other types of plaque cause gum disease.

The gums red, swollen or bleeding may be early signs of gum disease. If gum disease is ignored, the tissues that hold teeth in place are destroyed and eventually lose their teeth.

Plaque can hardly be seen, unless it is dyed. You can color the plaque by chewing red tablets a “revealing” toothpastes sold at grocery stores or pharmacies. You can also use a green food coloring. Red or green stain and is impregnated in the teeth shows where there is still plaque and where should you keep brushing to remove it.

Color case and examine your teeth regularly to make sure you are removing all plaque.

You ask your dentist or dental hygienist if your plaque removal techniques are effective.

Often parents have to work hard and continuously so that the child does not shut his mouth every time you brush your teeth. But do not worry, there’s always a fun way to lead children to like this activity.

Use Examples
Parents can apply teeth cleaning habits for the whole family. How:
1. Starting from yourself.
2. Make brushing activity as one that needs to be done at least twice a day.
3. Encourage your child to see her father, mother, or sister brushing teeth.
4. While trying this habit, tell children about the benefits of brushing teeth.
5. Do not quickly give up when the baby looks could not catch what we deliver. Particularly since the early toddler is still difficult to understand. Explanation of tooth decay such as holes, there are germs or become swollen, the child is something that is abstract and difficult to understand. Use a simpler explanation.

If little things like this done with consistent, children will imitate what they exemplified. Moreover, if the sample is viewed children as something fun, fun, and not at all boring.

What exact form? Of course, parents themselves who know what can make the child interested. Brushing teeth need not be done formally in the bathroom. It could be done with a little dance, mirror, and singing with joy after the rinse.

Treating the teeth are rough and hard when brushing your teeth can be fatal. The presumption of brush hard with a rough brush to get white surface of the teeth and healthy must be changed. For healthy teeth are not going to get, but will make the tooth enamel to be vulnerable and might be bleeding gums.

Many patients who come with demands to immediately get the shape and appearance of healthy and perfect teeth, either color or shape in a short time, after treatment at the clinic. Patients are not reluctant to spend big to get maximum results. However, it becomes futile, if not balanced with the treatment done at home.

A few things potentially damaging security must be avoided teeth, such as teeth cleaning process the wrong way. In addition, too low in cleaning teeth that makes plaque still attached to the teeth is also suspected to be one culprit of tooth decay.

The early deadline when eating hot food with cold drinks can damage teeth. The consumption of cigarettes, coffee, tea and alcohol in large quantities at risk also makes tooth decay. For that reason alone should be treated at home, because it is much more important than to come to the clinic after receiving a complaint on the teeth.

Treatments that can be done at home is simple enough. The way to brush teeth regularly, twice a day, followed by a rinse using mouthwash that contains an antiseptic. And be sure to visit your dentist regularly every six months.

As a further step, to reduce the consumption of foods with high sugar levels and increased eating fruit.

Dental care and mouth from an early age is critical dental and mouth until the end of life. Some teeth and mouth disease can be experienced by children and infants when treatment is not done well, such as holes in the surface of the teeth, gums become inflamed, and the sprue.

Tooth decay generally occurs at an early age (children and infants) usually because of food / drink. Sweet foods such as brown and sticky like lunkhead if not immediately brushed / mouthwash will be left behind and causing tooth decay. Also drinks like tea, coffee, soft drinks, and cigarettes can cause a thin layer on the tooth called the stain so teeth become dull color, brown. Coarse layer stain is easily attached to the remains of food and bacteria, which eventually form a plaque, if not cleaned will harden and become tartar, and can spread to the roots of teeth. The result is easy bleeding tooth, wobbly teeth simple and easy to date.

How is the treatment? Consider the following steps:

Familiarize in tooth brushing. Caring your teeth can begin in infancy, this can be done by your child’s teeth cleaned by using cotton gauze or a rinse with warm water, then slowly digosokan on your baby’s gums. If the child is growing up, we as parents have to help introduce teeth brushing routine. Way that can be done by providing learning and brushed his teeth holding.

Eating noticed the child’s diet should also be kept in mind the old. Is the food consumed can damage the teeth or vice versa. Do not be too much to give children eat sweet foods like candy, chocolate, biscuits and foods that are sweet and easily attached digusi. Such foods usually reacts in the mouth and eventually forming acids that can damage tooth enamel. The effects, such as cavities, tooth loss before their time, interference with the size, shape and number of teeth. To prevent this, provide fiber foods, like vegetables and fruits, because these foods are self-cleansing (cleansing) which require mastication process repeatedly.

If it wants to give a brown foods, sweets, biscuits and other sweets should be at the right time, for example, after lunch. When you have finished the child was told to brush his teeth clean.