The importance of Oral Hygiene

Having a great smile and good teeth are so important. Sales people, executive, professionals, performers, students and just about anyone from looking good and feeling better about themselves. I confessed that I was raised without a dental professional checked my teeth. Having a dentist is the last thing in our list, food first. If our tooth aches, we will just do self-treatment like herbal medicines, garlic and pain medicines. We don't care about abscess and gum swelling. As long as our stomach is full and meet our basic necessities.

When I had my first dental check up here in the States, I was so nervous, I knew there will be a lot of work they will do on my teeth. First, they did a lot of x-rays, bite wings x-ray, upper and lower. Then the dental hygienist cleaned my teeth. They knew right away based on the x-ray that I have a dead tooth, and there"s no other choice but to pull it, which I refused because I did not feel anything on that dead tooth, not painful, its normal looking, how come it was dead? The dentist made a simple test just to show me it was really dead, he put an electric stick on one of my "healthy tooth" and I felt a tingling sensation, its painful. Then he tried it on my "dead tooth" and I feel none, no tingling sensation, nothing, no feeling. It means, it's dead. And there's a link on that, it's not that simple that I have just a "dead tooth" They said I will need a biopsy to check if its cancerous. Of course, I felt scared. NO idea that a simple tooth will make a difference. Just found out that there"s a lot of related diseases link to our teeth. So we better not take for granted oral hygiene.

After that, I got numerous dental visits, my biopsy was negative. But since hubby got retired, our dental insurance was stop. And I still have more appointments left. It's embarrassing but I have 2 cavities for treatment. We have to pay for 100% for this, we have no choice, I really need this treatment to save my teeth. I need a smile.

I want to thank Dr. Lattner and his staff for a job well done on my teeth.

Germiest thing in the school

I was surprised with the grade shool student's experiment in the school today. Their goal is to find the germiest thing inside the school building. My guess was they will find it at the kid's toilet, coz everytime I accompany some special kids to the toilet I can see how dirty it was, some of the kids does not observe proper cleanliness in using the toilet. But nope, its not, can you guess what it is? The answer might not be what you think. Yes, its far from what I guess, they found it at the library, and it's the library's computer keyboard. They checked also the office computer keyboards and found out they have a lot of bacterias compared to the toilet seat in the kid's bathroom.

How about your home? Can you name the top 5 germiest things? I was right on my guess with this: kitchen sponge or dishrags- I prefer using microfiber dishtowels, I used them once then wash it. Second is the cutting board- I bleach them everytime I wash especially if I cut chicken or any meat. Your kitchen surfaces and faucet handles have a lot of germs too. Use antibacterial products to wipe these. Sink drains are nasty too, with germy biofilms, yucky. And the doorknobs too, I make sure I wipe it everyday with antibacterial agents.