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- Medical Video: 5 Bad Habits That Damage Your Teeth
- 1. Chewing ice cubes
- 2. Directly brushing your teeth after eating
- 3. Sweet and carbonated foods
- 4. Open the packaging with teeth
- 5. Eat often snack or snack
Medical Video: 5 Bad Habits That Damage Your Teeth
Teeth are one part of the body that is often forgotten to be looked after and cared for. Without your realizing it, the habits below can damage your teeth.
1. Chewing ice cubes
Some people have the habit of chewing ice cubes after the drink runs out. You might think chewing ice cubes is not harmful to dental health because ice cubes do not contain sugar. But this habit can actually damage teeth. In addition to causing your teeth to break, damage to the inner layer of the tooth can also occur if you chew ice cubes that are too hard. Damage to this inner layer can cause prolonged toothache. If you can't resist the urge to chew ice cubes, try replacing ice cubes with sugar-free gum.
2. Directly brushing your teeth after eating
You might think brushing your teeth immediately after a meal will reduce the risk of toothache due to tucked food. But brushing your teeth immediately after eating is not recommended, especially after you eat sweet and sour foods. This is because foods that contain lots of sugar and acidic foods (such as oranges, lemons) will create an atmosphere AC ID in our mouth. This condition will weaken the tooth layer called enamel.
Directly brushing your teeth after eating these foods will erode your enamel. If this continues, your teeth can become brittle and sensitive teeth will appear later on. To prevent this, you can wait 30 minutes after eating to brush your teeth. Or you can rinse your mouth with water before brushing your teeth to get rid of acid in your mouth.
3. Sweet and carbonated foods
As explained earlier, sweet foods will create an acidic atmosphere in our mouth which can damage the tooth enamel, while soft drinks have high acid levels. Although the soda you drink is a diet soda that is claimed to have no added sugar, it could be that the acid levels found in soda are higher so that it has the potential to damage teeth.
4. Open the packaging with teeth
You may do this often, especially if you can't find a packaging opener around you. But this habit can damage teeth. Unpacking snacks to bottled bottles can damage and cause trauma to the tooth layer and increase the risk of broken teeth or shake. You certainly don't want this to happen. It's better to provide scissors and bottle openers near you than using teeth to open food packaging.
5. Eat often snack or snack
When we eat snacks, the production of saliva in our mouth is not as much as when we eat lunch or dinner. How does saliva play a role in maintaining our dental health? As quoted from WebMD, saliva can help with dental health by coating the teeth using calcium and minerals contained in them. In addition saliva also functions to neutralize acidic foods that can damage the teeth layer.
When eating snacks, there is not much saliva produced, so our teeth are less protected. In addition, when eating snacks, we tend to choose sweet snacks that exacerbate the possibility of the occurrence of plaque buildup on the teeth. You can choose sugar free snacks like fruits and nuts.
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