Guide To The Selection Of Toothbrushes

Toothbrush is the main tool for people to maintain oral hygiene. There are many toothbrush varieties and grades on the market, what kind of toothbrush is more suitable?

This should be considered in the following ways: 1. The size of the toothbrush head: according to the regulations of the American Dental Association, the length of the toothbrush head should be 2.5~3 cm, the width is 0.8~1 cm, there is 2~4 brush hair, each row of 5~12 bundle bristles, the front end of the toothbrush head should be round blunt shape.

These rules can be used for reference when people choose toothbrushes. 2. Hardness of bristles: generally can be divided into soft, neutral, hard three kinds, usually the use of neutral hardness of the toothbrush is more suitable. When buying a toothbrush, you can use your fingers to press the bristles, such as the finger has a tingling sensation is too hard, not suitable to choose. The brush hair of the commercially available toothbrush is mostly nylon bristles.

The elasticity, uniformity and hardness of nylon bristles are better than that of pig wool toothbrushes, which is more favorable to oral health care. 3. Brush head and brush handle angle: The market toothbrush has linear type and angle type two kinds.

Linear type of use is more powerful, there is an angle of the toothbrush on the back teeth cleaning effect is better, this angle to 17 degrees ~20 degree is appropriate.

4. Top of the bristles: the top of each brush should be round and blunt, there can be no sharp angle, purchase can be used hand to touch judgment. 5. Special toothbrush: Periodontal disease patients or older people, gingival atrophy, tooth clearance increased, in addition to the use of general toothbrushes, but also the use of dental toothbrushes, this toothbrush brush hair has conical, long strip, etc., can choose to use. There is also a toothbrush with only two rows of bristles, which is used to massage the gums. The lateral two-row bristles are specially used for dental orthotics, which can not only brush the tooth surface, but also clean the food residue on the orthosis, which is longer than the middle two rows of brush hairs.

For those with inconvenient hands and feet, such as stroke patients, you can choose electric toothbrush, light electric ion toothbrush and so on.