Don’t spend a fortune on your teeth – use prevention tips
If you can’t afford the dentist, ways to preserve your teeth are the following:
Dental Floss – cost ¢.99 cents to $3.00
Tooth brush – manual or power – cost ¢.89 cents to $149.00
Irrigator – $19.95 to $149.00
interdental brush $1.99 to $3.99
rubber tip – $1.99 to $3.99
floss threaders – ¢.50 cents to $2.99
If your teeth hurt, you must see a dentist. It is best to get a dental cleaning twice a year. If you can’t then do it once a year, and do these steps.
It should take 15 minutes a day to do these steps, divide up into 7.5 min. in a.m. and 7.5 min.in p.m. if you desire.
Is there a price tag on your teeth – Yes, and your payment is your time.
Crowns are $650 to $1500 each, root canals are the same, apicoectomies are about the same and dental implants are at least that or double, and dentures are about that cost. Dentures will not solve anything. They need to be refitted every couple of years and mouth sores happen too.
When older we can be more likely to get problems. Like other ailments our mouth gets aged and there are things that affect it.
Placque control is very important. Use a piece of 18 inches of floss and place between your two hands with index and thumb and put into mouth. Make it wrap around each tooth and scrape off the placque. It sound gross but think of it on your teeth, and it eating away at them.
This will help in the prevention of tooth loss and high bills, very high and being uncomfortable.
This will help in the prevention of tooth mobility. ( I use “woven floss” it is like a little thicker and 2 strands) but if your teeth are in rough shape begin with a waxed thin floss and work your way into a thicker one. It could take 6 months or a year. Your gums will bleed when you start, but continue, do it every other day or twice a week then more often. This is so simple to do and it will save you the big bucks in the long run.
I use an irrigation tool too. My husband gave it to me for mothers day and he got it on line. You can get big sales on line. I think it was $19.99. It is slender and I put water in it and use it. It recharges and it doesn’t take up more than 3 inches of room on my small counter.
My toothbrush upstairs is a soft one, and the downstairs is a power one. My squirts water, my husband’s doesn’t. Stores sell battery ones too.
This site will provide you with comparisons on teeth products. www.chochrane.org
I read about all this info in a book called “Periodontology for the Dental Hygienist by Dorothy Perry, 2007.
Do something for you, and your family, be healthy.
