Is It Important to Brush Your Teeth Before Bed?
To brush your teeth has become one crucial need on daily basis to keep your teeth clean and your mouth healthy. Not only in the day, this activity also needed to do at night, especially before you go to bed. Why? Let’s check out the reasons.
JAKARTA – To brush your teeth has become one crucial need on daily basis to keep your teeth clean and your mouth healthy. Not only in the day, this activity also needed to do at night, especially before you go to bed. Why? Let’s check out the reasons.
The foods you eat on the day leave certain particles and debris on your teeth that feed bacteria. Not brushing your teeth before sleeping makes you allow the plaque to grow and mature at faster speed overnight.
However, our saliva in mouth act as natural defense as it has anti-bacterial properties, neutralizes the acid level in your mouth that washes away the food left in your mouth. But in sleep saliva production decrease at the night allowing plaque to generate bacteria attacking your tooth enamel.
Skipping this activity at night will make your teeth turns their color to yellow for the plaques staying overnight at your teeth. If you kept ignoring it then it will lead to a severe condition such as cavity, swollen gum, or bleeding the next time you brush it.
The food stayed overnight will become cavity soon if you skip this routine. It will also form root canal which make the dentist should remove it. Not only it will ruin your nice smile but skipping to brush your teeth at night will also make you spend more expenses.(*)
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