Bad Oral Habits

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Hello friends and welcome to my article I would love to appreciate @helengutier2 for such an interesting contest and I would. Be showing my thoughts on the topic immediately.


Name most common bad habits we acquire as children?

Kids learn to adopt habits which are bad and this happens so easily without their knowledge up until it becomes so obvious about them. I would be sharing some of them.

  • Poking of the nose and eating the mucus from the nose is one the most common bad habits among kids today

  • Biting of finger nails is one of the bad habits too which kids acquire these day, most of them use these bad habits of nail biting to grow up and it's really disturbing too.

  • Eating food without proper washing of hands can be a bad habits that kids imbibe into themselves which is obviously seen these days and we must not forget

  • Most kids steal food from their parents pot as kids, it looks as though it is a small thing but most kids grow up becoming thugs and thieves in the society, a bad habit they refused to kill as kids.

  • Some kids have this bad habit of chewing gum and candies which on the long run end up ruining their teeth and causing some dental issues to them too

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biting fingernails is indeed bad oral habit!

Tell me if you had any bad oral habits and how you acquired it

Frankly speaking I had bad oral habits as a kid, I always skipped brushing my teeth as a child and I thought it was smartness, it was one of my bad habits and bad breathe was the implications until I changed it at teenage age. I also loved biting my nails it was really a bad thing for me at the time but indeed it was one of my bad habits at the time.

Moreso, as a child I loved using my teeth to open soft drinks and all worth not, it was really a habit until I had a sharp shred of my enamel in one of my molar tooth. It had to take that experience for me to stop it actually and I would not forget it in a jiffy.

Furthermore, hand-picking my tooth when I had fish or meat debris remain was one of my have habits which I remember which was also good for me. It was not funny for me but I loved doing the act more often than not. I also was fond of gnashing and grinding my teeth during my sleep and it was also a habit I had to stop eventually as I grew up too.

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bad oral habits must be dropped!

How can we eradicate this type of bad habits

We can duly eradicate these bad oral habits by these processes as we see below


Good Oral Hygiene


These bad habits can be eradicated by good oral Hygiene. Trying your best to brush twice a day is a good oral hygiene, also trying to go for steady dental check up from time to time. These are basic habits would in one way or the other reduce bad oral habits and this make you better.


Discipline


Good oral habits learnt should be took to heart too. If you see that sugar and candies destroy the teeth and gum, these debris decay and weaken the gum of the teeth, all these habits could be stopped by discipline too. If you have good discipline, you can stay away from what gives you poor dental health.


Enlightenment


Most families are not enlightened on the disadvantage of bad bad oral hygiene and this they do not strictly follow the kids on how to keep these oral habits clean, sticking them up with so much candies and sweets which ends up giving them bad hygiene.


How can we avoid falling into these bad habits

These bad habits can be avoided by firstly knowing the implications, knowing the bad effects on your dental health. They say knowledge is power, when they know the bad effects they would tend to stop it and eventually turn a new leaf. Indeed proper orientation is needed as a basic prerequisite for good oral habits.

As parents attaching strict measures is needed to show a better approach towards these bad oral habits too. These habits should be ended and our kids given a better life. Most of these kids do these in ignorance so the parents standing in that a office should do the needful and keep them out of these bad habits they can't control.

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