The third National Oral Health Department of the Ankang epidemiology investigation points out, although the popularity rate of brushing in the morning and evening is very high, but the Chinese adults, gingival bleeding attack rate is 77.3%, the detection rate of 97.3% episodes of calculus, caries rate was 88.1%, Zhou Ankang was only 14.5% teeth. Medicine science education net collection can be seen, our country dweller of caries and periodontal diseases is still serious.

Experts pointed out that 78% of the people think my oral and dental care habits good. About oral Ankang and care, we have three major misunderstandings:

First, oral care is not only dental care. In practice, light relies on every morning and evening brushing two times to maintain oral Ankang, prevention of oral diseases, is far from enough, brushing can clean oral area accounted for 25% of the tooth surface of bacteria and food residue, brush your teeth after oral still has a lot of bacterial residues, constitute a plaque, resulting in a variety of oral problems, such as tone, tooth decay, gingivitis, calculus and other.

Second, do not pay attention to oral disease early symptoms. Tooth decay, gingivitis in the episode are no obvious symptoms and pain, so easy to be ignored. However, if no measures are taken, will increasingly exasperate, can lead to serious results, such as gingival recession, tooth mobility, pain and even scattered etc..

In third, a serious oral diseases before seeking treatment, lack of prevention knowledge. Oral disease once, is irreversible, therefore, must pay attention to and do a good job of prevention. In order to effectively improve the Chinese residents of the oral cavity, medicine. Science education network collected since 2007, China's Ministry of health is to start brushing, mouthwash, dental floss initiative electric slobber " whole mouth clean trilogy ".