If you have wondered what kinds of drinks are harmful to your teeth, and which drinks are actually helpful, where here is the answer for you! When it comes to liquids, the levels of acidity in your drinks can actually have a large impact on your oral hygiene.
Sipping on sports drinks can damage your teeth because of the high levels of acid in them, dentists have warned. Dental experts placed teeth in sports drinks and in water to compare the effects and found the citric acid in the sports drinks caused corrosion and could result in severe tooth damage if left untreated.
The results of the experiment were presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Dental Research in Miami. Researchers at the New York University College of Dentistry cut calves' teeth in half and immersed each half in either a sports drink or water and compared the results after seventy five to ninety minutes.
This was the first time that the citric acid in sports drinks has been linked to erosive tooth wear. The erosion on the half placed in the sports drink was clearly visible because dozens of tiny holes had appeared while there was no damage on the half which was immersed in water.
Brushing teeth immediately after the drinks would only compound the problem however, because the acid in the drink softens tooth enamel leaving it vulnerable to the abrasive brushing with toothpaste. In another study, scientists found cutting out one serving of sugared soft drink led to weight loss of just over one pound after six months and 1lb 4oz after eighteen months.
Cutting out other drinks did not have the same effect, the researchers said. However, this study did not replicate real life as the teeth were studied outside of the mouth.
A real-life study conducted by Ohio State University, which is the most comprehensive study to date, found that there is no relationship between the consumption of sports drinks and dental erosion. Anyone concerned about this issue should consult their dentist for advice on how to minimize the effects of dietary acids from all sources in the diet.
Conversely, green tea can actually be good for your teeth. Researchers suspect antimicrobial molecules contained within green tea helps preserve teeth, as long as you don't add sugar.
A cup of green tea a day may keep the dentist away. That's the finding of new research published.
The findings show that drinking at least one cup of green tea a day increases the odds of keeping your teeth as you age. The researchers suspect that antimicrobial molecules called catechins present in green tea and in lesser amounts in oolong tea provide the benefit.
But be careful if you like your tea with sugar: sweetener may negate the effect, the team found. Green tea may have bacteriocidal effects, which would affect teeth, but only if you drink it without sugar.
They also reported that drinking sweet coffee was actually deleterious. Coffee alone had no problem, but sweet coffee would actually make you lose your teeth.
Yasushi Koyama of the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine and colleagues looked at more than twenty five thousand Japanese men and women between age forty and sixty four in making the determination. They found that men who drank at least one cup of tea a day were nineteen percent less likely to have fewer than twenty teeth than those who did not drink green tea.
Tea-drinking women had thirteen percent lower odds. One possible explanation for the benefits of tea drinking is that warm drinks wash out your mouth.
But coffee, which also provides a mouth rinse, had no benefit, suggesting something else is going on. Catechins have been shown to kill mouth bacteria associated with tooth decay and gum disease, so the researchers suspect this is what gives green tea its dental benefits.
Previous research has indicated that regular consumption of green tea may lead to a lower instance of periodontal disease, a leading cause of tooth loss in adults. Maintaining healthy teeth and gums is part of maintaining a healthy body.
That is why it is so important to find simple ways to boost periodontal health, such as regularly drinking green tea -- something already known to possess certain health-related benefits. Now you know the kinds of drinks that will hurt and help your teeth.
Author Resource:-
Ronald Pedactor is a former dental assistant and has authored hundreds of articles relating to oral health. He worked for a cosmetic dentist in South Carolina before becoming a guest dental lecturer for the past 15 years.
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