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How to Keep Your Mouth Healthy And Clean

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By mrny
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Keep Your Mouth Healthy And Clean
Keep Your Mouth Healthy And Clean

In times of high dental care cost if very important for people to adapt good oral hygiene habits. By adapting good oral hygiene habits you could avoid costly trips to the Dentist. Saving yourself a good amount of money in the long-run. In this article, I will list a few simple things you could do to keep you mouth healthy and clean.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Mouth Wash
  • Toothbrush
  • Toothpaste
  1. Step 1

    When you get up in the morning the first thing you should do before you eat or drink anything, is brush you teeth. Brush you teeth for about 6-8 minutes and then gargle with mouth wash for about 30 seconds.

  2. Step 2

    After you eat any meal during the day brush your teeth for about 2-4 minutes. Then rinse your mouth out with mouth wash or water. This will help prevent food from getting stuck in your teeth. Which can lead to your breath having an unpleasant odor.

  3. Step 3

    At night right before you go to bed, brush your teeth for about 3-5 minutes and rinse out your mouth. If you follow these steps every single day, your mouth will without a doubt will begin to look and feel healthier. In the long run adapting a good oral hygiene habit like this, will save you from trips to the Dentist. Which will eventually stop you from spending your hard earned money, on getting your teeth cleaned. Good Luck!

Tips & Warnings
  • Avoid eating plenty of candy (sweets). Eating to much candy will cause cavities which will could severely damage your teeth.
  • If you ever experience pain when biting down on something. It would be a good idea to go visit a Dentist to get help to fix the problem.

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senia said

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on 9/9/2009 I agree with you on all steps, it's important to make it a habit!!

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on 8/21/2009 Great article on how to keep your mouth healthy and clean!! 5* and recommend!!

aussiebev said

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on 8/21/2009 good advice, thankyou for the information

ljsomma said

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on 8/19/2009 great tips! thanks a 5!

vernk said

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on 8/16/2009 great info thanks!

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