Bad habits should be abandoned if you want healthy teeth and gum.

 

1. Bite Your Nails

If you are always biting your nails, your oral health will pay the price. Not only are you spreading harmful bacteria that hang under your fingernails, non-edible items such as fingernails can bite, bite your teeth, fracture, or even into your jaw Injuries can occur.

Instead: Apply some bitter-tasting nail polish and work on reducing your stress levels. Awareness and calming your anxiety can help you make your nails (and teeth) your best!

2. Cheerfully brushing

Cleansing your chompers with hard strokes can cause them pain rather than being clean and healthy. Rough handling teeth can wear down enamel and irritate the gums, which can eventually expose the gingival layer, exposing the dental layer below.

Instead: Brush at least twice a day with a soft-cut toothbrush and gently massage the teeth. This will clean the surfaces of teeth without damaging them in the process.

3. Cleansing and Grinding

If you are constantly closing your jaw and grinding your teeth (awake or sleeping), it can damage your teeth and jaw. This habit is called bruxism, and it often arises from unrelated stress. It wears enamel leaving the teeth and makes them vulnerable to caries. You may find yourself with painful jaw or joint pain, or even fragmented or sticking teeth.

Instead: Practice relaxation techniques for jaw stress relief and wear a custom night guard at bedtime.

4. Chronic Snacking

Whether you drink a snack or a sweet drink continuously throughout the day, both can damage your teeth. And it's not just bathing your teeth in sugars, which can cause cavity. Snacking on chips and carbohydrate-filled goodies feeds the harmful oral bacteria of your mouth, resulting in plaque buildup and tartar that can damage your gums.

Instead: Quench your thirst and protect your teeth with good, clean water. In fact, hydrating with water will also prevent your saliva from dry mouth, which is the need to clean up the oral debris and bacteria during the day.

5. Drinking heavy alcohol

Regularly drinking alcohol increases the level of plaque in your mouth which ultimately damages the teeth. Since alcohol acts as a diuretic, it can reduce the flow of saliva (resulting in dry mouth).

Instead: Limit your alcohol intake and drink water in between to hydrate.

6. Chew Ice

It might be nice to kiss on snowflakes on a hot day, but your teeth are not designed for this (especially when it is habitual and leads to cracks and chips). Your teeth and ice are both crystals, so the effect of rubbing them together can cause damage to the teeth, even potentially damaging the dental filler.

Instead: Consume your drink through a straw to keep it from accidentally munching on ice. Make sure not to chew on the straw! Also, try to cool your drinks in the fridge beforehand.

7. Kick the Tobacco Habit

A tobacco habit not only stains your teeth but also inflates your salivary glands so that they do not perform properly. As if it were not too bad, smoking causes bad breath, gum disease, decreased density of jaw bones and mouth cancer.

Instead: Find a smoking cessation support program that works for you. Your lungs, teeth and gums will thank you!

8. Teeth are for chewing

Your teeth are not tools! Do not use them to tear tags, open a bag of chips or hold your pen.

Instead: Stick your food with your teeth to bite and chew, and use the right tools to handle everything else.

When it comes to your habits, we encourage you to take extra care of your smile, so that it takes good care of you! You will get the benefits of healthy teeth, long lasting dental work and a more beautiful smile!