Dental hygiene in Handicapped

Disabled or handicapped by having the mental or motor skills, find it difficult to make a correct both general and dental hygiene. Sometimes their hygiene must be performed by another person. Following the guidelines set out below, our aid to the fallen will be more effective.

Clean assisted

In many cases, decreased physical or mental needs help from another person.
For this aid is effective, the person should be placed in front diminished the person in charge of hygiene and giving back to it, sitting in a chair with his head and back.

The charge of your health will be placed on the rear foot well and you get some good visibility and easy access to the teeth.

Is due to choose a small brush head and if necessary adapt the handle is curved or elongated with a toothpick or plastic timber.

This cleaning dede performed daily after meals, with special attention to cleaning up after dinner. Sitting in Dental Hygiene.

This cleaning dede performed daily after meals, with special attention to cleaning up after dinner. Dental hygiene in Handicapped

Cleaning staff

While the decline can receive help in some situations it may be he himself who carried out their own hygiene.

In the case of tooth cleaning is a great help adapting the toothbrush for its handling easier. Can be enlarged so the handle of the brush with a ball or the grip of the handle of a bicycle.

You can also crank the handle or length atándole a piece of wood or plastic. It may be useful to hold the brush in his hand with a rubber band. Sometimes you can help the use of electric toothbrushes.

Tips Advice

* The dental cleaning should be performed three times a day, after meals. You should use a toothpaste with fluoride because it strengthens teeth and removes plaque.

* It is important to wash your teeth if you take sweets between meals. If taken before going to sleep, it is essential to wash your teeth at night because it is more dangerous when it is the action of bacteria on sugar.

* It is essential that a proper diet and nutrition is an important influence on the formation of cavities. Thus, they should avoid foods that contain sugar such as candy especially if they are sticky consistency as the Chews, and that the greater adherence, the greater its ability to cause cavities.

* On the other hand should be promoted proper Chewing of food. This requires providing these patients with solid foods, avoiding possible abuse of mixtures and purees, as the chewing promotes the proper development of the masticatory apparatus.

* It is also necessary to pay attention to the state of wear of the teeth and see if the disabled grind them.The rub the teeth of the upper arch against the bottom or the tight heavily known as bruxism. This habit is common in handicapped by difficulties in the coordination of the muscles and causes wear a mouth dentary that is initially moderate but over time can be so great that came to losing all the crown of the tooth..