Persuasive Essay On Oral Hygiene

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When a clinician providing patient with oral health information, he focuses on what is important for each age group. Young people and children will need advice about consumption sweets and fizzy drinks or need to wear orthodontic appliance. Adults may need advice about alcohol consumption, smoking, oral health during pregnancy or wearing a gum shield for contact sports. While elderly will need advice about root surface caries, gum recession or denture care to prevent Candida stomatitis. There are few differences in oral hygiene for different age groups. Children shouldn’t be using mouthwash before they reach the age of six as the mouthwash containing fluoride and too much fluoride in childhood can cause fluorosis. Child usually develops ability …show more content…
- Smoking causing gum disease, staining and may lead to oral cancer so it’s best to stop smoking.
- Its best to avoid using dummies as they are one of the reasons for developing malfunction.

It’s important to keep on mind culture when giving oral health advice as some cultures have diets high in sugars or acid, some cultures have poor oral health education or fasting as required by their faith. For some culture is common chewing tobacco or betel quid.
Examples of advice provided:
- Smoking causing gum disease, staining and may lead to oral cancer so it’s best to stop smoking.

Its scientifically proven that right amount of the fluoride added to the water helps strengthen the teeth and protected from caries. Only about 10% of the UK is supplied with artificially added fluoride in the water. Some people are against it, because on the other hand too much fluoride may cause fluorosis- mottling. For this reason, children shouldn’t be using adult toothpaste as its contain higher amount of fluoride than the children toothpaste and may cause fluorosis in the

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