HOW CAN I KEEP MY TEETH AND GUMS HEALTHY ? (TEETH AND GUM CARE), CARA MERAWAT GIGI DAN GUSI AGAR TETAP SEHAT

HOW CAN I KEEP MY TEETH AND GUMS HEALTHY?
CARA MERAWAT GIGI DAN GUSI AGAR TETAP SEHAT

Look at your teeth and the skin (gums) around them.Look in your children's mouths, too. Look at both gums and teeth, because the health of one often depends on the health of the other. “To be strong, teeth need healthy gums. Healthy gums need clean teeth.” 

                                 

What can good teeth give you?

GOOD HEALTH

GOOD LOOKS

GOOD SPEECH

GOOD EATING

GOOD BREATH

You need strong teeth to eat different kinds of foods. Different foods are important for health. Nuts, maize, fruits, and meat are some of the best foods-but they are difficult to bite and chew if your teeth are loose and hurting!

If you notice a problem early, often you can stop it from getting worse. It is even better to prevent the problem from starting. You can do this if you know how to keep your teeth and gums healthy.

How can I keep my teeth and gums healthy?

1. EAT ONLY GOOD HEALTHY FOODS

                                    

The best food is food that you grow or raise yourself. Mix different kinds of food together and eat several times a day. This helps your body as well as your teeth and gums to stay strong and healthy. Traditional food is usually good food. Sweet food, especially the kind you buy from the store, can mix with germs and make cavities-holes in the teeth. Soft food sticks to the teeth easily and it, too, can make a coating of germs and food on the teeth that starts an infection in the gums-gum disease.

For child’s teeth :

-         Breast feed to help a child's teeth grow and stay strong. An older child can drink from a cup.

      Don’t give a baby anything to drink from bottle. Sweet tea, sugar water or fruit juice can easily make holes in the child’s teeth. Even milk has sugar that can wash over the baby's teeth and cause cavities when it comes from a bottle.

2. CLEAN YOUR TEETH EVERY DAY

            

If you do not clean properly, the food that is left on your teeth can hurt the teeth as well as the gums near them.

Bits of food stay longer in grooves and 'hiding places'. This is where both tooth and gum problems start. To prevent problems you must take special care to keep these protected places clean.It is better to clean your teeth carefully once every day than to clean poorly many times a day. Use a soft brush to clean your teeth. Buy one from the store (be sure it says soft on the package).