Tuesday 7 February 2012

Experts teach you to clean removable denture

Removable dentures, after all, oral foreign body into the mouth will gradually form a plaque, a day are not completely clear, the pathogens will be abnormal proliferation, and together with other risk factors, cause severe oral and other systemic diseases.

Unclean removable dentures, a variety of serious diseases can lead to bacteria, fungi, and is the main cause of denture stomatitis, bacterial pneumonia, bacteremia and other serious diseases. A survey shows that, If you do not do any cleaning activity of denture stomatitis prevalence was 76.9%, just wash with water, denture stomatitis prevalence reduced by 2 percentage points, were soaked down to 25%, with detergent soak plus toothbrush washing, the dental instruments prevalence dropped to 11%.

Removable dentures after every meal should be picked clean, the mucosa time to rest. Activities denture cleaning to do the soak, brush and washed three steps. First soak the dentures in the solution produced by the denture cleaning tablets, do not put the denture in hot water, as dentures deformation.

Wear before using a soft bristle toothbrush dipped in denture cleaning solution gently scrub the surface difficult to clean water rinse denture cleaning solution and The gums surface anatomical structures then wear back in the mouth. Select scrub the denture toothbrush not to vote for the bristles hard toothbrush, brushing dentures, not too hard to avoid damage to dentures.

Tips: Ultrasonic cleaning is also a good way to clean dentures, but even to ultrasonic cleaning, daily denture cleaning cannot be replaced.

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