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How Better Oral Health Leads to Better Relationships

Oral health is extremely important for a healthy relationship. How happily intimate you are will be determined by your oral health.

Think about how it would be if you have poor oral hygiene?

Right from close conversation to kissing, some sort of reluctance will develop because of bad breath or poor oral health. It might go up to the disruption of the relationship.

Is it worth losing your partner just because you are not good at oral care? Or is it better to take professional support for maintaining oral hygiene?

Poor oral hygiene can truly create an unexpected disaster for your life. The destruction it can create is something beyond what you expect.

Let us see how oral hygiene can impact your relationships and why do we need to stress on the importance of dental hygiene.

Why is oral health important

When your oral hygiene is not good, you are not just risking your health, but also your partner’s health in terms of intimacy.

The oral cavity is full of bacteria, and teeth and gums are prone to infection.

When your hygiene is not good, you tend to transfer that infection to your partner.

In case if you have children, your poor oral hygiene will stop you from getting too close to them.

Read along to know about the importance of oral health, and how badly it can impact your life in various ways if you do not take it seriously.

The inapt upbringing of children

As a parent, it is significant to maintain proximity with your kids. This gives a feeling of oneness.

This gives a sort of secure feel, comfort, boldness, and helps to bloom happiness within the family.

A child is a future adult, and the healthy upbringing of a kid’s life depends on how happy they are in this early phase of life.

When you fail to comfort your child at this point, you are raising an arrogant or submissive person.

Psychologically, the glow of a child depends on their parents’ moral support. You could be shattering your kid’s future just because of your poor oral hygiene.

Partner’s discomfort

The relationship with your partner could take a drastic turn because of your poor dental hygiene.

Initially, it will start with hesitation to get closer. Later, it could turn into irritation and land-up with unwanted quarrels.

And remember, in this case, you are forcing your partner to lose their tolerance.

You may not realize the actual cause of such changes. But when you start realizing that your poor oral health is the real culprit, you could get too late to revert the irreversible damages created.

Unsuccessful dating

In most instances, you might end up with unsuccessful dating because of bad breath. Imagine kissing someone with bad breath!

Dating is meant to attract your partner. Unfortunately, if you have poor oral hygiene, your partner would not be comfortable approaching you, either to kiss or at least to talk.

Despite having other virtues, you might become unattractive and annoying, just because of poor dental hygiene.

Without correcting this core problem, it would be difficult for you to find your soulmate successfully.

And you would definitely not like to miss out on finding a good partner just because of your ignorance towards oral health!

Loss of self-confidence

Unknowingly, you could be forced to lose your confidence because of halitosis. You could be afraid to talk in public and try to maintain social distancing or turn up to be an introvert.

You may try to hide your mouth whenever smiling or talking.

You will become more conscious and try to control your laughter. But never forget that laughter is the best therapy to reduce stress.

Rather than controlling being yourself, you shall make efforts to rectify poor oral hygiene. Such low self-esteem will badly hinder your personality. 

Trouble during pregnancy

Firstly, your efforts to get pregnant might get delayed because of poor oral care. The unhealthy oral environment can affect the possibility of getting pregnant due to the presence of prolonged inflammation.

Secondly, it is also found that poor oral hygiene is linked to preterm birth and low-birth-weight of the baby. If you are an expecting mother, it is highly important to take care of your oral health.

Infection from the gums enters the bloodstream and affects the fetus’s growth.

From pre-term birth to low birth weight, the mother’s unhygienic oral health could be held responsible. A newborn baby is the bundle of joy for any family.

But when a baby is born with such health ailments, it will morally affect all around you.

Unhealthy family circumstances will trouble each one in your family. Such negative impacts will certainly disturb everyone’s future.

(05/18/2023)
by Dr Sonal Bhoot

More Information: https://www.marriage.com/advice/relationship/how-better-oral-health-leads-to-better-relationships/

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