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5 Reasons to scrape your tongue everyday!!

5 Reasons to Scrape Your Tongue Every Day

#1 Improves the breath: 

Removing the bacteria, food debris, fungi, and dead cells from the tongue significantly reduces the odor from the mouth.  You may have been told to use your toothbrush for this purpose, but brushing the tongue does NOT efficiently remove all of the film that develops on the tongue.  You will be blown away the first time you  do this by the amount of gunk that comes off of the tongue.

#2 Improves your ability to taste:

Removing build-up from the surface of your tongue will better expose your taste buds.  This will lead to better enjoyment of the flavors of your food.  Ayurveda teaches that the better we enjoy and savor our food, the better our bodies digest and assimilate, leading to better over all health.  Also, Ayurveda teaches that blocked taste buds and tongue receptors interferes with our body’s ability to communicate with our brain about what types of foods we need to maintain our health, leading to false cravings.

#3 Avoid toxins being reabsorbed into your body:

As you sleep, your body is detoxifying.  Much of the film on your tongue is toxins excreted from your body.  You don’t want to re-ingest that do you?  NO!  Scraping your tongue first thing in the morning will remove this sludge from your tongue and from your body, improving your over all health and improving your immune system.

#4 Improves dental health:

By removing bacteria and toxins, you are also contributing to better dental health as well, leading to healthier teeth and gums.  The bacteria that you remove from your tongue are responsible for things like periodontal problems, plaque build-up, tooth decay, gum infections, gum recession, and even loss of teeth.

#5  Get to know your tongue:

Did you know your tongue is a mirror reflection of your internal organs?  Just like with hand or foot mapping, the tongue is mapped out to reflect various parts of your internal body.  You can learn so much about what is going on in particular areas just by looking at your tongue every morning.  Also, by scraping your tongue, you are actually stimulating and massaging those corresponding internal organs, just like in acupressure or acupuncture.  Pretty cool, huh?

TOOTH SENSITIVITY      

Hard To Ignore But Easy   To Treat

   Ever wonder why every time you have a spoonful of icecream you inevitably end up touching your face.

   Every time you sip on your fruit juice you sense a twinge in your mouth!! Here is the answer:

                                  “  your teeth are sensitive “

  

 Almost half the population experience sensitivity and it usually occurs due to wearing away of the enamel which is the outermost protective layer of the teeth.

Due to wear of the enamel there is exposure of the softer layer of teeth which is the dentin, which has tiny tubes that contain nerve endings which are filled with fluid.

Eating /drinking any foodstuffs that are hot or cold or any sweetened item cause this fluid to move, resulting in discomfort to the nerves causing: sensitivity.

It usually occurs due to receding of the gum line, caused by overzealous brushing or using an abrasive tooth paste

Those who have a habit of grinding teeth during stress or during sleep are at a high risk of developing Sensitivity as grinding too wears the enamel exposing the dentin

 Fruit juices and cold drinks are high in acidic content, eat away the enamel causing sensitivity.

                                    How To Reduce sensitivity

Avoid overzealous brushing, use soft bristled toothbrush

                                                                                 

Brush regularly with a desensitizing toothpaste

                                                                                 

Application of fluoride to sensitive areas of  teeth

Reduce the intake of acidic juices and fruits and when consuming

                                                                                

 Use a straw along with it so there is minimum contact with the teeth

                                                                                

 For those who have a habit of grinding teeth nightguard should be used

                                                                                 
Surgical gumgraft If root of the teeth has lost gum tissue 

                   

   Regular check ups at iDENT, will keep your teeth healthy and smiling.

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Y U NO STOP asking me questions when your hands are in my mouth??

Dental Humor

                                                CLASSIC MORNING MISMATCH

                                            ORANGE JUICE &TOOTHPASTE!!

Ever felt a bitter taste after consumption of orange juice soon after brushing??

Who would have thought your early morning source of vitamin c had your taste buds turning your mouth sour .

Basically the sodium lauryl sulphate of the toothpaste suppresses your sweet

receptors&has a dampening effect on the generally sweet taste of orange

This sulphate destroys the phospholipids in our body which enhance our

sweet receptors, Thereby the sls inhibits the sweet receptors and this is how

your sweet taste of orange turns sour.

So next time when you consume your vitamin c source see that you have given a gap of half hour after you have brushed.

Dental fillings – what you need to know

 

   When you have a cavity in your mouth, your dentist may suggest you get it filled,    

   so all thanks to technological advances, dentists and patients today have several  

   choices when it comes to selecting materials to fill cavities. But still one of the most

   common misconceptions we find in dentistry, is that most people think that all white

   fillings are the same. This is far from the truth.

   There are fundamentally two types of white fillings, porcelain and resin. We often    

   compare the different between porcelain fillings and resin fillings to the difference

   between your plastic picnic plates versus your fine china dinnerware. They are like chalk

   

and cheese, totally different products.

   In terms of terminology plastic white filling can be referred to composite or resin.

   Porcelain fillings are often called inlays, ceramic. Both types of restorations utilize the

   same blue light, it is used to set hard the cement material. The resin is placed in soft and set

   hard with the light, whereas the porcelain restorations are hard prefabricated filling that is

   bonded into the cavity. When a filling is on the larger size requiring corners or what is termed as

   cusp replacements. We always recommend porcelain reconstruction of the tooth to ensure that

   you are not back in the dental chair fixing the same tooth again anytime soon.

Porcelain or Ceramic fillings have excellent aesthetics. It restores natural appearance of the tooth. These fillings are more resistant to staining than composites. Compare to silver fillings they offer a metal-free alternative to your filling needs. For those concerned with environmentally conscious dentistry and to limit their exposure to metal toxins, then ceramic fillings are a viable alternative to filling your cavities.

Again comparing to metal fillings Ceramic fillings is generally much more resilient and less susceptible to their metal counterparts. The porcelain material commonly used in ceramic fillings can last more than 15 years and, additionally, are typically much stronger then the silver used in metal fillings, consequently providing greater protection from the filling breaking and the need to have then repaired.

At I DENT, both options of white fillings are readily available. It’s a matter of working out 

with you which option best suits your expectations and budget

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Happy Holi :)

iDENT

Mumbai

022 40147049

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