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  • Keeping up oral health with muscle weakness

    Posted by leah-leilani on March 5, 2019 at 3:10 pm

    Maintaining oral health is difficult when you have weakened muscles. No one else knows this about me but my mom actually brushed my teeth for me until the age of nine. We had a routine where every morning and night she would lean over me on couch and I would lay on my back and open my mouth. 

    As I got older I began brushing my own teeth in the morning but she still helped me at night because I was too exhausted. 

    Around the age of twelve my mom bought me an electric toothbrush. We had to find one that was rechargeable and didn’t contain a heavy battery. 

    Do you have someone help you brush your teeth or do you own an electric toothbrush? Do you have difficulty maintain your oral health because of MD?

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