Holding your toothbrush like a pen will help you apply the right pressure to your teeth. This is because you can easily control the force you’re putting on your hand. On the contrary, when you hold your toothbrush with your fist, you can easily lose track of your force and overbrush. It’s not the pressure that will clean your teeth — the bristles have to be able to get in between all the teeth, removing plaque and other bacteria.
4. Make sure your toothpaste is low-abrasive.
We need our toothpaste to be abrasive enough so that it does its job and cleans our teeth as it should. However, high abrasive toothpaste does more than that and removes the enamel from our teeth. Instead of reading labels and searching to see how abrasive the ingredients are, there is another trick you can use.
Simply take a piece of foil and rub a small amount of your toothpaste on it. Then rinse it with plenty of water and see if there are any scratches left on the foil. The number of scratches will indicate just how abrasive the toothpaste is.
For those of you who suffer from the symptoms above, what has helped you to overcome the problem and recover the health of your teeth?
