Generally speaking, majority of people select the tooth brush according to age. With tooth brush types, the tooth brush design is generally divided into children, teens and adults three kinds. Of course, child tooth brush is so small and cute, which is as big as that length of 18 mm, a width of less than 9 mm and tuft height of less than 9 mm.
Adult tooth brush is biggest among the three. Average length of the brush head is about 30 to 35 mm, and width of 10 to 12 mm, with 3 to 4 rows of bristles. And the height and diameter of tooth brush bristles is relatively larger than other. Regardless of tooth brush bristles bend recovery rate is over or equal to 40%. As for selecting tooth brush according to the oral condition, those people who have swollen gums, easily bleeding and the exposed root should try to choose a soft-bristled tooth brush. The bristles of tooth brush are arranged to be less, which can massage the gums without damaging the gums.
After brushing your teeth, using dental floss is best way of cleaning the rest food hidden amid the teeth. For those people who are difficult to clean the gums behind the last tooth or tooth gap increasingly papillae can have an option to choose peripheral shaped tooth brush types whose the bristles of brush head can be relatively long and the brush head is slightly narrow, therefore you can try to clear the backlog remaining food between the teeth.
Except for these consideration mentioned above, you should timely replace your tooth brush types. So many people spend three to five years for using one tooth brush. Also, some families used only one tooth brush but very few people took time on tooth brush disinfection. For your body and oral health, it is a good recommendation provided by experts in shanghai dental that you used brush with one sets each person. It is effective to prevent illness infecting each other. You should replace a tooth brush for 3 months, if needed, you can be positive for replacement about one month.
According to shanghai dental, because the new tooth brush is used for four weeks, where there is a variety of bacteria. And the originally soft rounded bristles are crowded into one piece of bread. After those people who have the flu or a cold brought back, they should replace tooth brush types immediately to avoid be infection again. And recognize the signs printed "Dental Association approved" to confirm the quality certification logo on the package.
Note that the maintenance of brushing their teeth, sometimes there is residual food residues and water in the tooth brush where is easy to breed bacteria to cause oral and systemic diseases. So after brushing their teeth, you should assure that clean the tooth brush, try to get rid of the moisture bristles and then put it on the brushing cup upward, which is placed in ventilated dry place, not in an enclosed tooth brush holder.
For people with collective life, it is available to carry out collective disinfection with formalin fumigation. Studied from shanghai dental suggest that general tooth brush is made ??of nylon filament, the high temperature would make it deformation curve. So it should not be washed at high temperatures, also cannot be sterilized by boiling.
