Contents:
- Medical Video: 10 Mistakes You Make While Taking Care of Your Teeth
- Tips for choosing the best toothpaste for dental health
- 1. Check the active ingredients first
- 2. Adjust to your needs
Medical Video: 10 Mistakes You Make While Taking Care of Your Teeth
Brush and toothpaste is a unit that cannot be separated in maintaining dental hygiene. But usually, many people are still confused by the choice of brand, color, taste, and even the functions offered - for sensitive teeth, whitening, and eliminating bad breath. Then, what is the best toothpaste like?
Tips for choosing the best toothpaste for dental health
1. Check the active ingredients first
The ingredients contained in toothpaste will depend on the benefits offered by each toothpaste itself.
- Abrasive agents, such as calcium carbonate and silicate. Its function is to help remove food scraps, bacteria, and stains from your teeth.
- Pemanis and artificial flavorings, including saccharin. Often found in toothpaste various kinds of special taste for children, or some adult toothpaste that offers mint or menthol taste.
- Humectantlike glyceros. This isactive ingredients to keep the texture of toothpaste moist and not dry quickly
- Thickener added to toothpaste dough to make a characteristic sticky texture
- Foam detergent, usually sodium lauryl sulfate which makes foam when you brush your teeth.
Avoid choosing toothpastes containing diethylene glycol.
2. Adjust to your needs
The rest, the selection of good toothpaste must be tailored to the needs of each person.
According to Hadie Rifai, spokesperson for the American Dental Association, regardless of the type, the best toothpaste is that contains a minimum of 1,000 ppm fluoride. Fluoride is a natural mineral that helps reduce tooth decay.
In addition to fluoridated toothpaste, there is also a tartar toothpaste that aims to clean the plaque layer on the surface of the tooth. The function of tartar toothpaste comes from the active compounds of pyrophosphate, zinc citrate, and triclosan.
If your teeth are sensitive, make sure the toothpaste you choose contains potassium nitrate or stonsium chloride. These two active compounds reduce the sensitivity of the nerves in the teeth to the cold or hot stimulation of your food.
To whiten teeth, look for toothpaste that contains abrasive particles or chemical compounds that are effective in eroding stains and plaques that make the color of teeth change. A good whitening toothpaste does not contain bleach detergent.
Also make sure your chosen toothpaste has passed the approval test from the American Dental Association or health institution in each country, for example BPOM RI.
