Arthritis Affecting Your Oral Care?
The effect arthritis has on manual dexterity can also cause complications with managing oral hygiene. Holding a toothbrush, or handling dental floss can be very challenging. Electric toothbrushes do alot of the work for you, so the use of an electric toothbrush may be of consideration for easier toothbrushing. Another way to combat dexterity issues when managing the health of your mouth may be to modify the structure of your manual toothbrush. For instance, try creating a hole in a tennis ball then placing the end of the toothbrush handle inside the ball. Or even rolling a washcloth around the