Healthier Drinking Straws or Directly from Glass?

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Drinking from a straw is normal. If we go to a place to eat or buy drinks outside, we often need a straw as a tool for sipping drinks. When drinking hot drinks, straws can help the hot water slowly enter your mouth. Drinking through a straw is also more practical than taking a sip directly, but it can also reduce the risk of choking. However, is using a straw better?

The benefits of drinking through a straw

Indeed there are pros and cons of drinking profits and losses through straws. Some say drinking through a straw can help avoid the amount of sugar that is drunk, so it will help reduce the effects of the liquid and acidic drinks that enter your mouth so that your teeth remain white.

According to Dr. Euan Swan, dental program manager at the Canadian Dental Association, quoted by Best Health Magazine revealed, "Drinking a straw will minimize sugar contact with your teeth."

According to a journal report from General Dentistry, the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD), drinking through a straw can also reduce the problem of cavities. The report was made by monitoring the habits of taking participants and it was found that several factors such as the frequency of gulping and the length of drinks in the mouth, will affect the type, location and severity of tooth decay.

Cavities usually occur in the back teeth, and drinking directly from a glass or bottle can affect the amount of fluid that spreads in the mouth. However, cavities are also found on the front just behind the lips, if the person drinks through a straw.

Different opinions expressed by Dr. Mark Burhenne quoted by Ask the Dentist, who said that drinking with a straw still did not make a difference. You can still feel fluid, so the effects of sugar and acid can still damage your teeth. If you touch a straw between the lips in front of your teeth, the effect of food can still damage the teeth. Similarly, by touching a straw between your teeth, the back of the tooth can still be damaged. All you need to remember is that your tongue is always in contact with your teeth, so if your drink can touch your tongue, of course your teeth will be affected.

According to Mohamed A. Bassiouny, DMD, Msc, PhD, the leader of this report, "Your best choice is to place a straw behind your mouth when you drink a drink, thereby reducing the amount of fluid that comes in contact with your teeth."

The disadvantage of drinking a straw

Drinking a straw is known to cause wrinkles around the mouth. Wrinkles can occur because you will wrinkle your lips when drinking from a straw. Indeed wrinkles will not occur overnight. However, the habit of drinking using a straw will gradually form folds around the mouth, so that if done repeatedly it can cause the skin to stretch.

Another impact that occurs when drinking from a straw is your digestive problem, it can be excessive gas or flatulence. Why is that so? The reason is that when you drink through a water straw, it is possible that you swallow more air in each gulp than you drink directly. This air will collect in the intestine and can cause flatulence and discomfort due to gas.

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