Tips to Keep Your Teeth Cleaner throughout the Day

There are seemingly endless tips and advice for improving your smile’s appearance, dealing with a toothache, and several other smile goals. Fortunately, the tips that typically involve preventing dental health concerns are often similar, and typically, they revolve around keeping your teeth consistently clean and free of harmful oral bacteria. This is the main point of your daily dental hygiene routine, but to successfully keep your teeth clean and avoid common dental concerns, you may benefit from following these few tips, as well.

Don’t skip brushing and flossing, ever

Being consistent with your daily hygiene routine is one of the most important pieces of advice you can receive about your dental health. Brushing and flossing your teeth will only work to keep them clean if you do it every day. This is because the oral bacteria that accumulate on your teeth do so constantly, and they don’t require a lot of time to get settled. If you skip brushing or flossing your teeth even once, then oral bacteria can have plenty of time to accumulate and overwhelm your teeth and/or gum tissues.

Be mindful of your snacking habits

Oral bacteria can be harmful when they gather excessively on your teeth and oral tissues. However, their greatest threat lies in the harmful substances that they produce while there. For some types of bacteria, these substances include acids that weaken tooth enamel and make teeth vulnerable to infection (or decay). Other types of oral bacteria can release vapors that make your breath chronically bad, even after brushing and flossing your teeth, or they can produce molecules that incite rampant inflammation throughout your gums and oral tissues. These bacteria do their worst when they metabolize nutrients in your food and beverages. To limit the substances they produce, try sticking to a regular snacking schedule every day, preferably at a time when you can easily clean your teeth afterward.

Brush or rinse your teeth after eating

While you can’t prevent exposing your teeth to harmful bacteria substances, you can do a lot to protect your smile from them. In addition to brushing and flossing consistently every day, you can also gently brush your teeth about 30 minutes after eating to further reduce the impacts of oral bacteria metabolizing nutrients. If you can’t conveniently brush your teeth, then try rinsing your mouth carefully with water to rinse away food particles and neutralize most types of oral bacteria.

Learn more about keeping your teeth clean

Consistently clean teeth are essential to good oral health, and with these tips, you have a better chance of keeping yours clean throughout the day. To learn more, schedule an appointment by calling Gentle Smiles in Dallas, TX, today at 972-329-7645 (972-329-SMILE).