If you are what you eat, this is true in particular for teeth and gums. If you drink and waxy maize, not only food, Feed Digest you the plate, the disaster in the mouth.
Plate is a thin film, invisible bacteria sticky and other materials on all surfaces of the teeth. If the sugar and starch in the mouth plate in contact with the come, stop the acids result teeth can attack, for at least 20 minutes after eating. Repeated attacks can break the Hartemaillierte on the tooth surface, leads to decay teeth. Plate produces toxins that attack the gums and bones, the supporting of teeth.
Although some foods invite caries, help others, plaque accumulation to fight. Here you find some food and avoiding.
The good
Fiber-rich fruits and vegetables: "Food with fibres work detergent in your mouth," said Richard h. price, D.M.D., a spokesman for the consumption of the American Dental Association, "and they encourage also the flow of saliva, which is in addition to good dental care, your best natural defense against tooth decay and gum disease." About 20 minutes after something with sugar or starch, food Dr. price adds you, your saliva starts to neutralise the acids and enzymes grab your teeth. Because saliva contains traces of calcium and phosphate, it is also mineral areas of the teeth that have lost their.
Cheese, milk, yogurt and other dairy products: Cheese is an another generator of saliva. The calcium in cheese and calcium and phosphate in milk and other dairy products, restore minerals, that your teeth as a result of other foods could have lost. Mr Preis proposes a course of cheese for dessert.
Green and black tea: both contain polyphenols that interact with bacteria of the plate. These substances is to kill or remove bacteria, prevent the growth or production of acid tooth attacker. According to the type of the water you use to stir your tea, a cup of tea can be also a source of fluoride.
Sugar free chewing gum: one other large saliva Builder adds the Dr. price, removes particles of food in the mouth.
Licorice: Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles found that in tubes in this old Chinese herbs connections inhibited the growth of Streptococcus mutans, the bacteria of the main plate.
Foods with fluoride: drinking water fluoride or any product that you make with fluoridated water helps your teeth. These include the juice powder, (assuming that they contain not much sugar) and paused soups. Prepared foods, such as poultry products, can also offer fluoride seafood and cereals in the powder.
Before the foods that are particularly bad for the teeth, a golden rule Dr. price offers: long food, which promotes the rest of plaque bacteria in the mouth, it is the worst. It is therefore not necessarily the amount of the sweets you eat, but how often you eat.
He said "Jelly Donut or piece of candy per hour more than 10 of them at the same time will damage,".
The bad
Love sweets and treats, to hold that in the mouth: If you eat sweets, to go quickly, to turn off the mouth of Dr. Tellement advises inch prices down for pacifiers, caramel, and cough that contain refined sugar. Surprising boost for chocolate, which, because its sugars into fat, easy coated slides of the mouth, are nutrition consultant from Philadelphia - area ALTHEA Zanecosky, r.d. Note you "a slab chocolate lava in your faster than sticky bear mouth", explains Dr. price. "A study chocolate suggests cause cavities as raisins, because dried grapes are formerly stockings and natural sugars," divided that in the mouth, because they take so long.
Starchy foods, which can put in their mouths: strength, are the complex carbohydrates, can linger in the mouth. Examples: Bread or potato chips bits firmly between the teeth. "If you bread, in the mouth or on the back of the teeth, bacteria such as carbohydrates, eating", says Cynthia Sass, r.d., a spokesman for the American Dietetic Association.
Soft drinks: these drinks are the main source of sugar in adolescents and children added. Not only responsible for sugar, contain the most soft drinks acid and phosphoric acid citric acid, which undermine the tooth enamel.
Soft drinks, energy drinks and very sweet teas and lemonades sport: promote sugar high in these drinks to tooth decay.
Elements of dry mouth, including alcohol and many drugs: your mouth is exempt, plate advises M. price and also much water to drink, remember. If drugs are the cause, you should talk to your doctor a fluoride rinse or a gel of fluoride, to brush their teeth.
Lemon: It is to eat OK, says Dr. price, but suck on it. The enamel of the teeth above undermines strongly acidic juice.
How to eat for a healthy mouth
The American Dental Association offers the following tips to reduce the risk of caries the food that you eat:
Consume foods sweetened with meals: saliva production increases during meals, neutralize the production and the food particles to rinse mouth.
Limit snacks between meals: If you dream a snack, you choose to eat food and sugar-free gum, later to the flow of saliva and acid wash to increase. If you eat the sugar or acid attack strengthen your teeth at least 20 minutes.
Drink plenty of water: fluoridated water can consume help prevent tooth decay. If you choose water in bottles, you check the label for the content of fluoride.
You brush your teeth twice and silk once a day.