Secret Of Keeping Your Teeth Forever!

How do I keep my teeth forever? That is the ultimate question in dentistry. Unfortunately, most people have no idea. Also, the truth is a little puzzling at first. After all, there are only two ways to keep your teeth forever.

One is to live really short. In the past, that is what most people ended up doing. For example, people used to live only about sixty or seventy years. J.S. Bach lived 65 years. Shakespeare lived 52. Now, most people have the potential to live twenty more years than that. The problem is that teeth will not be there when you get to that age. Why is that? Because bone—not tooth—gets lost sooner than we want it to be.

The second way to keep teeth forever is to lose your bone very slowly. How slow does it have to be? It is about losing one millimeter per 10 years. Unfortunately, the losing rate for most people is two millimeters per 10 years. Here is worse news for you: You cannot slow the bone-loss process by your own effort. Underneath the tooth is where the stone-like material is growing and building up. Hence the name “build-up,” which is another word for tartar.

Mostly, your gum and bone recede away from the stone/tartar. The problem is that you cannot reach deep enough to clean the area where the stone is building up. That is why it is called “deep cleaning.” Brushing does not even reach all of your teeth because gums cover the end of the tooth. Flossing is a little better at reaching the end of the tooth. But the main purpose of flossing is for you to see whether you have gum bleeding (gingivitis) or not.

When you have bleeding gums, it provides more fuel to accumulate tartar underneath the tooth. Therefore, more bleeding gum might mean that your gum and bone recede faster than the ideal rate.

In summary, it is not your own cleaning that will save your teeth, but your willingness to bring yourself to get cleaning where you can never reach. You are saved not by your effort, but by your desire.

Here is my last point: Even the worst thing for your teeth has some positive attributes. After all, everything in life is not black and white. In reality, good and bad are often mixed. One positive attribute of tartar is that it numbs the area where you are most sensitive. So, when the stone gets stuck under your tooth and root area, you actually feel better with tartar.

Therefore, when you remove it, you remove the positive aspect of tartar. Consequently, you feel temporarily more sensitive than before because you no longer have the numbing agent stuck there. Just as it is not strange to feel sore after a workout, sensitivity is a sign that you are cleaner than ever. Soon the stone will accumulate again, and then your sensitivity will go away.