Toothpastes

Various promotional stunts make people choose certain types of toothpastes. It is not always the choice is correct. This note of what are toothpastes, and how they differ from each other.

All pastas are divided into two groups - hygienic and prophylactic. The first group is only for cleaning the teeth from plaque food, as well as giving a pleasant mouth odor. These pastes are usually recommended for those who have healthy teeth, and has no reason for the occurrence of dental disease, and regular visits to the dentist.

The majority of toothpastes is the second group - health care. Their purpose, in addition to cleaning the tooth surface, is the suppression of the microflora, which causes dental caries and periodontal disease, tooth enamel remineralization, reducing inflammation in periodontal diseases, as well as bleaching tooth enamel.

There are protivokarioznye paste, which include calcium-and fluoride toothpaste, toothpaste with anti-inflammatory action ("Forest", "Colgate forest grass", etc.) and whitening toothpaste.

Protivokarioznye effect by the presence of fluoride in toothpaste (sodium fluoride, stannous fluoride, amino, monofluorophosphate), as well as the presence of calcium (calcium glycerophosphate). All these substances are effective only in those cases where the process of cleaning your teeth last longer than five minutes. Anti-inflammatory effect is usually achieved by adding toothpaste extracts of herbs (mint, sage, chamomile, etc.).

Whitening toothpaste contains sodium bicarbonate, or baking soda, which has a strong abrasive action. Adopt a daily toothpaste is not recommended due to risk damaging the enamel. Usually recommend using them 1-2 times a week.

There is a list of substances included in the toothpaste. They perform support functions. Thus, detergents, among which the most common sodium lauryl sulfate, which is also used in the manufacture of shampoos, cause foaming. Abrasives, the most popular are aluminum hydroxide, chalk, sodium bicarbonate, silicon dioxide surfaces of teeth clean of plaque and bacterial plaque. Stabilizers are designed to increase the acidity of pH in the oral cavity, since the acidic environment promotes the development of caries.

Other substances that make up the toothpaste, improve its consumer properties - thickeners, coloring agents, flavoring agents, solvents and so forth.

Optimally, if you choose to receive dental paste. You can do the job yourself, bearing in mind that cheap toothpaste from unknown manufacturers are not as good as a brand. Toothpaste should be alternated. Thus, the tendency to decay and periodontitis should be applied morning protivokarioznye paste, and in the evening anti-inflammatory.