It’s always funny to me when I hear someone spouting some sort of “factual” knowledge that sounds extremely unsound, illogical, or just complete bull. I never really go out of my way to push my glasses up my nose and tell them a piece of my mind, but it does irk me to hear people speak so definitively about topics on which they’re very limited in knowledge. Dental facts is one of those things. Sometimes you hear people say that brushing once a day is completely fine. Or that the dentist isn’t “worth your money.” Some of these things are easy to recognize as crap. Others, though, may actually put you in a position where you’re not too sure yourself and could find yourself believing in someone’s claim. Well, we did some lifting for you so that you could tell myth from fact. Tooth whitening products erode your enamel. It’s best to talk to your dentist about the best tooth whitening products for you before you go forward. But anything that’s dentist approved doesn’t hurt your enamel whatsoever. While it may be somewhat painful or cause a little bit of bleeding, the whitening product should never hurt your enamel. Crowding is why you need your wisdom teeth removed. This one can be factual for some people, depending on their teeth. But crowding is often caused by other things, so braces often fix the problem of crowding far easier than removing wisdom teeth would. The real reason that wisdom teeth are often removed is because they’ve grown in impacted or because they’re hard to brush and have already begun rotting. Sugar causes your teeth to decay. This myth is probably at the top of all dental misinformation. Sugar causes your teeth to decay if you don’t brush them and leave the sugar on your teeth. So rather than how much sugar you eat or have in your mouth any given day, it’s up to how often you brush your teeth and take care of them. Gum disease only affects a few people.
It’s actually opposite. The majority of adults in America are affected by some sort of gum disease. But, most of those people wouldn’t know unless they went to their dentist as frequently as they should (twice a year). By going, you can eliminate your gum disease and make sure it doesn’t get worse down the road. If they bleed easily, your gums are pretty much guaranteed to be affected by gum disease.
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Blaine Behrens
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