4 Facts About Your Teeth You Didn’t Know

We all agree that our teeth are very important for eating, speaking and smiling. But did you know these simple facts about your white pearls?!!!!

Fact number 1:

Sugar is not the only bad guy. In fact, acidic foods or foods with low PH can harm your teeth as well. As bacteria causing caries love and flourish only in acidic media, Therefore, sour foods, soft drinks or beverage containing carbonic acid (which causes effervescence) and some fruit juices (e.g. mango, and citreous fruits like orange, lemon) if consumed continuously can induce tooth caries plus they can decalcify and soften your teeth; they can simply erode the enamel covering your teeth, thus causing them to be easily attached by dental caries. For most dentists, the 3 dental villains are excessive sourness, excessive sweetness and excessive sticky foods.

What to do if you will consume acidic foods? Really, some simple steps can save you a lot; make sure to consume such foods while eating your meals, this can effectively dilute them and minimize their harmful effect on your teeth. Chewing gums containing Recaldent, like Trident, can significantly re-mineralize your enamel and protect your teeth from caries. A powerful home remedy to neutralize the effect low PH foods is brushing regularly with baking soda.

Fact number 2:

Despite enamel is the hardest tissue in your body, it can easily break.

Actually, hard objects like needles, ice, hard popcorns, lip piercings of tongue and lip can easily chip off your lustrous enamel. American Journal of Dentistry has published a report in 2007, revealing that from fourteen to forty one percent of people who had lip or tongue piercing are suffering from variable teeth cracks as well as multiple loss of their teeth, furthermore, oral deformities are also very common.

And finally please, don’t ever try to open any bottles with your teeth.

Fact number 3:

You can lose teeth at any age, furthermore, some people are born without certain teeth, and this is a famous teeth anomaly called anodontia (ano: means no, while dontia means tooth).

Clinically, caries and gum diseases are most common causes for extraction of teeth. The most commonly lost teeth are wisdom teeth followed by lateral incisors.

Fact number 4:
The general rule saying “Effect of over care is nearly the same as under care” is true. In dentistry, the effect of too much fluoride on teeth can be as harmful as too low fluoride.

You might know that fluoride is very important for the integrity of your teeth. Unfortunately, ingestion of excessive amounts of fluoride during childhood will cause a serious condition called dental fluorosis, it affects permanent teeth. Usually, dental fluorosis starts as white spots in enamel that easily catches stains from oral cavity and turn to brown color. The dentist can’t polish surface of such teeth because the stains are intrinsic (from inside the tooth).

Since 1950, the American Dental Association has recommended adding a decided amount of fluoride to community water supplies to make teeth more resistant to dental caries.

So from where does excess amount of fluoride come to our children?

Despite most types of toothpastes contain fluoride which are intended to work topically, most children don’t know how to spit toothpaste after brushing their teeth instead of swallowing it, so the end result that our children will swallow more and more fluoride in toothpastes. Therefore, it is strongly advised to use fluoride-free toothpaste with children until they understand how to spit it.