Keep Your Teeth Healthy
Keeping a healthy mouth is part of keeping a healthy body and it should be at the top of the list in everyone’s daily activities. The optimum is to brush and floss three times a day or after every meal or snack. Yet, because of our busy lifestyles, this rarely happens.
Nevertheless, there are things we can do to slow down and protect our teeth from decaying by watching what we eat along with adhering to regular brushing and flossing habits. For starters, let's consider what kinds of foods and liquids are good for our teeth.
Sugarless gum tops the list, because it is sugarless and it helps generate saliva, which is necessary as a natural way to remove food particles from in between the teeth. This aspect, along with regular brushing and flossing, negates tooth decay and bad breath. Nobody wants to smell broccoli or curry when talking to someone.
Any vegetable or fruit high in fibers acts as a detergent, cleaning your mouth. Additionally, anything we chew generates saliva, (there it is again) which also aids in cleaning the teeth. This fact cannot be stressed enough, which is why sugarless gum is at the top of the list. How it works is somewhere around twenty or so minutes after eating sugary or starchy foods. Saliva, containing both phosphate and calcium, neutralizes the enzymes and acids that will destroy the enamel. At the same time, saliva rebuilds the teeth by replenishing the lost minerals through eating certain foods.
Dairy products such as milk, yogurt, and cheese among others, are also good because they contain calcium and phosphates that are the tools for rebuilding and replacing the minerals that our teeth need to stay healthy. Let's face it, anything we put into our mouth to consume, creates saliva, the important part of our digestive system, which not only helps breakdown the food we eat, but aids in keeping our teeth healthy.
Green and black teas contain a substance that fights the growth of plaque. It is the polyphenols within these teas that stop the acid that produces plaque. Additionally, if you use fluoridated water as a brewing agent then this adds to the fight against tooth decay.
Any food that contains fluoride is good for the teeth. The reason is that it helps the teeth in becoming resistant to sugars and bacteria that cause plaque, which attack the tooth enamel and results in cavities.
In the end, anything not mentioned here is going to show up on a list of foods that are bad for your teeth. As such, that list is never exhaustive because there are so many types of food, that although they are healthy overall, can still harm your teeth. That is why having regular routine checkups a dentist, along with a disciplined regimen of brushing and flossing, is pertinent in keeping and maintaining a healthy mouth and teeth.
Nevertheless, there are things we can do to slow down and protect our teeth from decaying by watching what we eat along with adhering to regular brushing and flossing habits. For starters, let's consider what kinds of foods and liquids are good for our teeth.
Sugarless gum tops the list, because it is sugarless and it helps generate saliva, which is necessary as a natural way to remove food particles from in between the teeth. This aspect, along with regular brushing and flossing, negates tooth decay and bad breath. Nobody wants to smell broccoli or curry when talking to someone.
Any vegetable or fruit high in fibers acts as a detergent, cleaning your mouth. Additionally, anything we chew generates saliva, (there it is again) which also aids in cleaning the teeth. This fact cannot be stressed enough, which is why sugarless gum is at the top of the list. How it works is somewhere around twenty or so minutes after eating sugary or starchy foods. Saliva, containing both phosphate and calcium, neutralizes the enzymes and acids that will destroy the enamel. At the same time, saliva rebuilds the teeth by replenishing the lost minerals through eating certain foods.
Dairy products such as milk, yogurt, and cheese among others, are also good because they contain calcium and phosphates that are the tools for rebuilding and replacing the minerals that our teeth need to stay healthy. Let's face it, anything we put into our mouth to consume, creates saliva, the important part of our digestive system, which not only helps breakdown the food we eat, but aids in keeping our teeth healthy.
Green and black teas contain a substance that fights the growth of plaque. It is the polyphenols within these teas that stop the acid that produces plaque. Additionally, if you use fluoridated water as a brewing agent then this adds to the fight against tooth decay.
Any food that contains fluoride is good for the teeth. The reason is that it helps the teeth in becoming resistant to sugars and bacteria that cause plaque, which attack the tooth enamel and results in cavities.
In the end, anything not mentioned here is going to show up on a list of foods that are bad for your teeth. As such, that list is never exhaustive because there are so many types of food, that although they are healthy overall, can still harm your teeth. That is why having regular routine checkups a dentist, along with a disciplined regimen of brushing and flossing, is pertinent in keeping and maintaining a healthy mouth and teeth.
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