Brushing your teeth twice a day is an essential dental care. This helps prevent tooth decay and gum disease. The size and shape of your toothbrush should fit mouth to enable brush to reach all areas easily. Using a toothpaste containing fluoride is also another tip in dental care for fluoride helps protect your teeth from decay. It is also a vital dental care if you clean between teeth using floss or interdental cleaners which remove plaque from in between areas toothbrush can't reach. This also prevents gum disease.

Brushing teeth is not as easy as you thought it is. You might not believe this but brushing teeth is more than brushing teeth, spitting out water, and gargling. The following are tips in brushing that will definitely vamp your personal dental care.

• Brush at a 45 degree angle in short, half-tooth-wide strokes against gumline • In brushing chewing surfaces, hold brush flat and brush back and forth • Tilt brush vertically and use gentle up and down strokes with toe of brush in brushing inside surfaces of front teeth • Brush tongue in a back-to-front sweeping motion to remove food particles and freshen mouth.

As mentioned earlier, flossing is a vital part in dental care and similar with brushing, there is a proper way in doing it. The following will teach you how to floss properly and get that great smile.

• Wrap an 18-inch strand around your middle fingers and hold a one inch section tightly. • Ease floss between teeth and clean up and down several times while curving around tooth at gumline. • Always floss behind last tooth and unwind clean floss as your proceed. • Floss around abutment teeth of a bridge and under artificial teeth with a floss threader.

Diabetes is a disease characterized by high level of blood sugar. This is due to faulty insulin production, insulin action, or both. Diabetes can lead to serious complications then eventually to premature death if not controlled correctly. So to better prevent diabetes or treat it if you already have diabetes, equip yourself with ins and outs of sickness.

There are two types of diabetes, Type 1 and Type 2. In both types, early detection and early treatment will reduce chances of developing serious health problems.

Type 1 diabetes was formerly known as juvenile diabetes or insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. Type 1 diabetes matures quickly and symptoms are very visible. This type of diabetes occurs when body’s immune system destroys pancreatic cells. These cells are insulin producing cells. This type of diabetes affects mostly children and young adults. Risk factors for type 1 diabetes include autoimmune, genetics, and environmental factors.

The exact cause of this form of diabetes is still unknown but it is believed that this is triggered by a virus or an allergen which stimulates immune system of baby, kid or young adult to attack beta cells in pancreas.

Type 1 diabetes symptoms include fatigue, recurrent urination, thirst, weight loss, sweet smelling breath and difficulty in breathing. If type 1 diabetes is left undiagnosed and untreated, this will lead to labored breathing, coma, and death.