Why tongue cleaning should be an important part of your brushing routine

Tongue cleaning is an equally essential step as brushing. While cleaning your teeth, you must never skip the tongue scrapping part. You can either use your toothbrush to clean your tongue lightly or use a tongue scrapper for the purpose. Here are some reasons which will support the fact, that tongue cleaning should be an important part of your brushing routine:

Keeps tooth decay at bay

While you pay a lot of attention to cleaning your teeth, your tongue is probably, the most neglected part of your mouth. Though brushing cleans the teeth of food particles, there is still some bacteria in the mouth which thrives on your tongue. These bacteria further leads to tooth decay and cavities. In order to keep tooth problems at bay, you must always brush your tongue lightly after brushing your teeth in order to deep clean your mouth.

Improves the appearance of tongue

Dirty tongues usually have a coating of them, which might make them look white or greyish in color. This coating is comprised of food particles and bacteria. Proper cleaning of tongue helps in removing these bacteria along with the dead skin on the tongue. Make sure you don’t scrub it too hard as it might injure the tongue. Regular scrubbing of tongue will help in keeping it pink and healthy.

Improves sense of taste

Usually your tongue gets coated because of different kinds of meals throughout the day. This hinders the ability of your tongue to taste. Proper cleaning of your tongue helps in removing this coating and helps your tongue distinguish between bitter, sweet, sour and salty in a better way.


Reduces bad breath

Brushing your teeth twice and thrice a day and still not able to get rid of bad breath? Well, the reason behind bad breath could also be a dirty tongue. Tongue becomes a storehouse of bacteria and even if your teeth are clean, these bacteria emit bad breath throughout the day. In order to keep bad breath at bay, make sure your clean your tongue every time your brush, with a toothbrush or a tongue cleaner.


Improves digestion

Tongue cleaning gets rid of bacteria which could hinder your digestive process. The process of tongue cleaning also produces a lot of saliva, which aids the breakdown of food. 

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Facial Yoga Exercises Make Women Look Younger

Performing facial exercises may actually improve facial appearance of women, according to a  study, the first one devoted to observing whether “facial yoga” yields positive effects for how one looks.

A daily facial exercise regimen sustained over a period of 30 minutes for 20 weeks may result in subtle but visible changes to the faces of middle-aged women, making them appear younger to the eyes of trained dermatologists.

The researchers conducted the study in which  27 women participated aged between 40 and 65 years old. They had to learn 32 different facial exercises and performed each one for about a minute during the experiment.

The researchers called in experts and asked them to evaluate the faces of the women before and after the study — the average age went down from 50.8 to 48.1 years, meaning they appeared to be more youthful after completing the regimen.

“The exercises enlarge and strengthen the facial muscles, so the face becomes firmer and more toned and shaped like a younger face,” said a professor of dermatology.

The study, lists one of its authors, a certified instructor who teaches various facial yoga programs at Happy Face Yoga. The Dr. noted that none of the researchers had financial interest in the programs.

It wasn’t just the experts who noticed that there were indeed positive changes to the women’s appearance. In fact, the participants themselves saw it too.

“Patients themselves found even greater benefits, and noticed that 18 of the 20 areas and features of the face that were studied got better over the course of the study,”the Prof. said, adding that generally, the aesthetic benefit was that their facial contour became smoother, fuller, and firmer.

That being said, the study isn’t without its limitations. For one, with just 27 participants, the study was very small, especially considering the fact that out of those 27, 11 dropped out mid-experiment. To prove that there are noticeable changes to a woman’s appearance because of facial exercise, the study must be replicated to include far more participants.

The study also didn’t have a control group, according to the researchers. A control group, for the uninitiated, is a pool of participants in an experiment who don’t receive treatment and are used as benchmarks to which the other participants are compared.

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