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Cleaning teeth

Let's start from everyday teeth hygiene, so are some tips on how to brush your teeth:

You should use soft-bristle toothbrush that would be replaced about every 3 months . When you're brushing your teeth, make sure to angle your brush to 45 degree angle so it goes against your teeth and gums, move your toothbrush back and forth in small circles.

The cleaning of the teeth and removal of plaque is mainly done by brushing properly along the gum line not by using more toothpaste! Too much toothpaste actually causes the cleaning to be less effective. The amount of tooth paste that will cover half of the brush head is good enough.

Try to avoid vigorous brushing. To stop plaque from forming between teeth you should flows your teeth daily and you will do a great job if you apply some toothpaste on the dental floss. You should know that tongue is the major source of plaque.

Scraping the tongue clean twice daily is essential oral hygiene. This is what you can do in your own home and now let see what you can do in your dentist's office.

In your dentist's office you can get a professional tooth cleaning. You dentist will clean your teeth and remove soft and hard deposits from your teeth that cause cavities. You should have your teeth cleaned because that way you can prevent or delay the progression of gum diseases. How often you should clean your teeth in your dentist's office depends on the health of your teeth and gums. Healthy adults and children should do it once in a year or two. But if you are prone to gum infections or you are a smoker, you should do it more often. It is best to ask your dentist.

By visiting your dentist for cleaning you are avoiding all further complications.

The history of dental implants

It's incredible, but the history of dental implants begins more than 1000 years ago, maybe even more, and it starts with the ancient Mayans. First dental implants that were found were made out of pieces of shell, shaped in the form of the teeth. Similar findings were made in ancient Egipt when excavating artifacts. Those implants were also made from shells, but also from ivory. Throughout history there were many findings of similar sorts, with different materials and shapes.

Probably one of the most important discoveries for todays modern implantology is in 1950's. In 1951, a Swedish professor named Per-Ingvar Brånemark, who was orthopedic surgeon by the way, was studying aspects of the bones' healing process in lab at the University of Lund. In one of the experiments Professor Brånemark and his team inbeded a titanium metal cylinder into the thighbone of an animal test subject. After some time they saw that the cylinder has succsessfully fused with the surrounding bone.

Professor Per-Ingvar Brånemark named that process osseointegration. In his further studies and experiments he found that titanium screws could serve as bone anchors for teeth. Further experiments were madewith different materials such are silver, gold and even human teeth from donors, but nothing came close to titanium. In 1980's dental implants, made possible by osseointegration, were being used to hold bridges and teeth into patients mouth, and were sccessfull in over 90% of the cases.

Over the time technology has only got better and the goal is to achieve faster and better osseointegration, less expensive procedures and materials, and more durable final products.