Dental care for beginners

Over 15% of people over the age of 40 wear removable dentures. As on the teeth, they eventually form a plaque from tea and nicotine, tartar and spots, so prostheses require no less care than native teeth.





There are, of course, effervescent tablets for cleaning prostheses. But the prices for them bite, and today no one has extra money, especially pensioners.

This causes many owners of dentures to look for alternatives to special pills cleaning options. With some of these methods "Site" He wants to introduce his readers.

  1. To prevent diseases of the oral cavity, you need to remove and clean prostheses daily, the more often, the better.


  2. After eating, dentures are recommended to be washed in running water.
  3. Over time, in the grooves between the teeth, on the inner surfaces of the prosthesis can form difficult to remove spots, especially if you often drink coffee, tea, red juices.
  4. To eliminate them, a mixture of tooth powder and soda is suitable.


  5. Apply it on your toothbrush to clean your prosthesis daily.


  6. Pure tooth powder is softer and contains fewer abrasive particles, but with a dense plaque may not cope.


If soda and tooth powder can no longer cope with plaque, then you can use a chemical cleaning method.

  1. Take a bowl where you can pour a solution of vinegar. It must be of sufficient size to completely cover the prosthesis with liquid.
  2. Mix one part of water with one part of white vinegar. Do not use apple, wine, balsamic or any other vinegar, its aroma can be transmitted to prostheses, which is not always pleasant.


  3. Before using vinegar, be sure to consult your dentist. Long-term use of vinegar as a cleaning solution can adversely affect the metal parts of partial dentures.


  4. Daily soaking dentures for 15 minutes in vinegar solution will prevent the formation of dental deposits without harming metal clips.
  5. If solid dental deposits have already formed on the prosthesis, soak it in a solution of vinegar at night. This will soften the tartar enough that it can be cleaned easily the next morning.


  6. Try it. denture in acetic solution for 15 minutes every day and for one night once a week. This should prevent tartar deposits.


To prevent the growth of bacteria on the brush for dentures, once a week soak it in a solution of bleach and water (1 to 2).



With the knowledge of How to clean denturesYou will be able to ensure their perfect purity and extend the service life to 10-15 years.

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