What's the difference between toothpaste?

1. The main components are different. The main components of ordinary toothpaste include abrasives, adhesives, detergents, wetting agents, preservatives, essence and water. Fluoride toothpaste contains fluoride, including sodium fluoride, potassium fluoride, stannous fluoride and sodium monofluorophosphate.

Medicated toothpaste is based on ordinary toothpaste and added with certain drugs.

2. The effect is different. Ordinary teeth mainly clean teeth and keep them beautiful, bright and white. Fluorine-containing toothpaste can prevent caries, and make hydroxyapatite easily dissolved by acid in tooth tissue form insoluble fluorapatite, thus improving the corrosion resistance of teeth.

The medicated toothpaste reaches the surface of teeth or the surrounding environment of teeth, and reduces dental plaque through the action of drugs, thus playing a role in preventing dental caries and periodontal disease.

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According to the different ingredients, medicinal toothpaste can be divided into four types.

Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory type. This kind of toothpaste contains anti-inflammatory components, has different degrees of antibacterial effect, and has a certain auxiliary effect on oral soft tissue inflammation (such as gums).

Allergy. This toothpaste contains antiallergic drugs, which can relieve the symptoms of tooth allergy to some extent. For example, Colgate's special anti-allergic toothpaste can be directly applied to sensitive teeth, which can relieve dentine hypersensitivity in one minute.

Detergent whitening class. This toothpaste contains some drugs to prevent the formation of dental calculus, which makes it difficult to deposit dental calculus on the surface of teeth and easier to remove.

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