It is a must to maintain your oral hygiene because your mouth can say a lot about your personality and can affect your attractiveness. It is essential to brush your teeth and floss regularly to make your teeth look whiter, brighter and to give you a fresh breath. Oral hygiene will be beneficial to you in preventing diseases even during pregnancy, in loosing weight and also helps in improving sex life.
Helps in the prevention of diseases
Healthy oral conditions will help prevent gum diseases, tooth decay and even bad breath. Having a healthy oral hygiene will also help prevent serious risks such as heart diseases, lung infections, infertility, diabetes, erectile dysfunction and also cancer. It is better safe than sorry; visit your dentist in Coogee regularly to give yourself healthy oral conditions and to give yourself a pretty smile.
Helps during pregnancy
The nine months of pregnancy can be a rough journey in any woman’s life because you should pay attention to exercise, nutrition, blood pressure and the list goes on and on. The fact that a woman is pregnant, should not stop them from maintaining healthy oral conditions. Pregnant women has high chances of developing irritations and bleeding in gums and also will bring rise to swollen gums. This condition is called pregnancy gingivitis. Gingivitis can lead to more problems in pregnant women such as periodontal disease, which can cause your gums to become red as a result of immune response of the body and will lead to swollen gums. Studies have shown that pregnant women with these two conditions, mostly give birth to low birth weight babies and goes through premature births, if not treated properly. Healthy oral conditions will give healthy pregnancies and healthy babies
Helps to lose weight
Frequent brushing of teeth will help you in weight loss because when you clean your teeth, the brain receives signals telling that the person has finished eating, you will not get the need to eat anything thereafter. The minty feeling in your mouth after brushing teeth, will prevent you from eating or drinking anything else. Brushing teeth will stop you from the intake of unwanted food.
Improves cognitive function
Cognitive function helps you in memory, attention, language, reading and knowledge. Having gum diseases will bring about cognitive dysfunctions and increases the chances of Alzheimer’s disease.
Improves sex life
Bad breath can be a problem but there are worse problems. Gum diseases in men can cause erectile dysfunctions.This happens when the bacteria and plaque in teeth, which is produced due to lack of care given to your teeth, will enter the blood stream and will cause disruptions in penile blood vessels. Brushing teeth has alot to do with male fertility and it is also proved, that gum diseases will affect the sperm count.